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sarah ✪ @freckley.bsky.social · 11h

Sorry pal, as shit as this place can be there aren't great alternatives right now

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16h

That New York Times story lots of people are sharing today about Farage's ties to US anti-abortion groups was first reported by @mc00.bsky.social on Byline Times a year ago bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...

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sarah ✪ @freckley.bsky.social · 14h

Solar Opposites is Rick and Morty's American Dad (complimentary)

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sarah ✪ @freckley.bsky.social · 19h

99.9999999% of British journalists (and a good 90% of US journalists) support the goals of those anti-trans groups and want to spare them as much negative press as possible

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sarah ✪ @freckley.bsky.social · 21h

Leaflets showing portraits of Sacco and Vinzetti. Under both are the following caption in Italian: "Vittima della rerealione capitalistica"

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sarah ✪ @freckley.bsky.social · 1d

"I just got done calling you all a censorious mob for daring to have more negative than positive responses to my infallible opinions, now be good peasants and get my metrics up"

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sarah ✪ @freckley.bsky.social · 2d

Can't believe how many 10+ year crypto maximalists *still* don't seem to get that "decentralized and free of regulation" means there's no manager to call when something goes wrong, and no state entities to investigate/prosecute market manipulators

August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 2d

I love how the big news on Trump’s tariff announcement is how moments before he made it a bunch of people made insanely profitable shorts on crypto, a thing that Bitcoin Bros are all astounded to see happening in a completely unregulated market of a fake currency primarily used by criminals.

BREAKING: Look at this.

A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning.

30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF.

The market dumped.

The trader made a profit of $192 million in two hours.

Unusual.

JUST IN: An anonymous trader opened massive crypto short positions just 30 minutes before Trump’s tariff announcements yesterday.

They made an estimated $192M in profits.

Donald Trump needs to go to jail. He is thief, he is literally robbing people internationally.

He announced 100% Tarrifs on China and sends the US stock market into a death spiral.

At the same time someone put over 1 Billion dollars into crypto with orders for 100 million being placed on Ethereum and Bitcoin and other crypto currencies across the board whilst markets got wiped after what he said. Billions, and I mean fucking billions got wiped out, whilst Bitcoin had it a biggest dip ever in a single candle losing 20k per Bitcoin, Whilst alt coins lost over 60-70% of value, everyone with leverage on the market with even 2 x leverage got murdered and robbed.

This was co ordinated, this was market manipulation with one anonymous wallet making over 200 million dollars in one day with trades showing that they knew Trump was going to announce this and crash the market.

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 2d

"Trans issues aren't this shameful thing that Democratic consultants suggest we hide from, it's the same fight undocumented immigrants are fighting, or those who can't access health care are fighting...Political issues aren't siloes, they're all connected, and Mamdani recognizes that." ✊

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 3d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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sarah ✪ @freckley.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, a message that Trump will get the Peace Prize next time if he invades Venezuela and kills more civilians, as long as he installs someone like her as the new "free" leader

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nobody @granddad.bsky.social · 5d

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sarah ✪ @freckley.bsky.social · 3d

Spent the past 18~ hours off and on arguing with Uber support trying to get reimbursed for a fuckup they made, not looking like it's gonna work though. Even their special platinum-level support is mostly form messages from an LLM

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sarah ✪ @freckley.bsky.social · 3d

It honestly would've been better to give the Nobel to Trump than to give it to someone who has praised Trump's murder of civilians from her own country and hopes it is the first step in a bloody invasion. All but telling him he could get the next one if he goes full regime change

sarah ✪ @freckley.bsky.social · 4d

Tbf it's not as inflammatory as I described in the post, they obv don't use the T slur in the video, but there are a lot of valid critiques one can make about someone like Contrapoints without (perhaps ignorantly rather than maliciously) taking shots at every trans person left of Wu who joined here

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sarah ✪ @freckley.bsky.social · 4d

Brake pads skipped the squeaking stage and straight to metal-on-metal scraping lol. In the old days I'd just turn my music up but the wiring on the speakers went out or something recently so it's just me and the scraping

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sarah ✪ @freckley.bsky.social · 4d

I wish they'd admit they were wrong about laughing at us cowardly trannies for hiding on Bluesky because we're all soft libs who can't handle discourse, as they argued multiple times on that last Contrapoints video

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sarah ✪ @freckley.bsky.social · 5d

Fetterman+ Signature Edition

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 6d

It's exasperating how youtubers who make their livings "explaining things" act like history doesn't exist if they don't already know about it. Had to turn off a video when the guy said that "terrorism wasn't really a thing in the 80s." My brother, look up plane hijackings, or Ireland, or Lebanon, or

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sarah ✪ @freckley.bsky.social · 6d

Shit's changed since I last did this kind of work. Local places and at least some big chain locations have outsourced their deliveries to the apps, so the only decent job market I've traditionally had access to has gotten just as competitive as the rest. Not good!

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sarah ✪ @freckley.bsky.social · 6d

On paper today's been productive so far- did some lunch deliveries, checked around local pizza places for a non-app job. Broke down crying on the way home though lmao

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 6d

Looks more and more like the raid in Chicago was more than just a fascist terror raid but the use of federal violence to help a bank empty a building they held in receivership.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 6d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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sarah ✪ @freckley.bsky.social · 6d

*EU flag in bio voice* who the FUCK told Europeans they're allowed to have their own politics while there's a Freaking Cheeto in the White House?

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 6d

There has always been a small, noisy minority of gay people whose belief in gay rights boils down to "I shouldn't have to give up any of my prejudices because of who I am." And straight people in media have always fallen all over themselves to hire them.

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 7d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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sarah ✪ @freckley.bsky.social · 6d

Fortunately, the latter will give plenty of anonymous quotes to newspapers so West Wing libs can continue to pretend the noble US soldier would never allow themself to be used by a tyrant

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sarah ✪ @freckley.bsky.social · 6d

Enough of them are salivating at the prospect for full permission to brutalize the Enemy Within that the quiet "oh gee guys this feels maybe not ideal" people will stay in line

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 6d

Starting to wonder how the National Guard troops Trump is treating like pawns in a game of chess feel about this commander in chief?

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