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Jan🧘‍♀️ @jfx9.bsky.social · 11h

Smooth out the variance in people is fucking SINISTER

Jan🧘‍♀️ @jfx9.bsky.social · 16h

People thinking that making life miserable for trans girls is "taking on the mob" is some of the sloppiest thought out there

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Jan🧘‍♀️ @jfx9.bsky.social · 16h

Need to make zines to hand out to national guard troops

Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 20h

for active military or if you know someone in the military:

“The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal.”
www.nimj.org/top.html#/

Orders Project

The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may....

www.nimj.org

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 20h

for active military or if you know someone in the military:

“The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal.”
www.nimj.org/top.html#/

Orders Project

The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may....

www.nimj.org

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 21h

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."

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Jan🧘‍♀️ @jfx9.bsky.social · 16h

Anyone who wants to go see Perfect Blue in the theater in nyc tuesday DM me

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

correct answer is perfect blue

NEIGHBORHOOD VOODOO PRIEST🔮🧿📿🪬 @tajaithealchemist.bsky.social · 17h

Ghost in the Shell or Perfect Blue?

Jan🧘‍♀️ @jfx9.bsky.social · 1d

I was born in the late 60s and have some fond reflections of TRON only because there was so little sci fi

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Jan🧘‍♀️ @jfx9.bsky.social · 1d

They can quit any time they want!

Jan🧘‍♀️ @jfx9.bsky.social · 1d

Looks good but this is a yuri-only account now

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

Another book review: I enjoyed Jinwoo Park's "Oxford Soju Club", a short & punchy thriller about a collapsing North Korean spy cell

The novel makes good use of rapidly-shifting perspectives and thematically deals with Korean immigrants finding their own identity
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Joey Politano's review of Oxford Soju Club

4/5: Oxford Soju Club is a short and punchy spy thriller about a collapsing spy cell in England—new leadership in Pyongyang means old agents are being picked off one by one, and now the North Koreans,...

www.goodreads.com

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Jan🧘‍♀️ @jfx9.bsky.social · 1d

Hamilton pisses off a bunch of people -> No naturalized citizen can be president -> Schwarzenegger tops out at governor instead of becoming a one term president in 2008 with Obama coming in in 2012 -> our current mess

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

Mr India is also following the standard of previous Mr India's in the contest of just wearing something traditional and immaculate and I think this is possibly my favourite traditional look of the year. It's just breathtakingly gorgeous.

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Jan🧘‍♀️ @jfx9.bsky.social · 1d

:(

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Jan🧘‍♀️ @jfx9.bsky.social · 11d

You didnt get your social security check? At least the ballroom continues apace

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11d

File this under “essential function.” 🤡

#Shutdown
abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 12d

This Day in Labor History: September 30, 1919. A shootout occurred between armed guards protecting a union meeting of sharecroppers in Elaine, Arkansas and whites seeking to intimidate them. The next day, the governor ordered the military to massacre the workers!!! This is the Elaine Massacre!

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 14d

This is, after all, the original and authentic meaning of "stay woke." In fact, the perversion of "woke" into an epithet is perhaps the defining metaphor of our moment: Historical victims are not only being revictimized, but also mocked for never forgetting this is always a possibility in the US.

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 14d

Little Free Anti-ICE Libraries: yesterday multiple people were abducted by ICE in my Chicago neighborhood (Avondale). This morning I added 40 ICE alert whistles to three different LFLs, including one box that is about a block from one of the kidnappings. I have ordered 700 whistles.

Bright orange individually packaged whistles, stapled to English and Spanish literature designed by Pilson Arts Community House in Chicago. They are placed inside a little free library in my neighborhood: Avondale in Chicago.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 16d

We are watching a coordinated right-wing takeover of popular media and it won’t stop here. archive.today/bXzZd

Jared Kushner's Firm Is Said to Be Part of $50 Billion Buyout of Electronic Arts Mr. Kushner's private equity firm, Affinity Partners, is said to be in talks with the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and Silver Lake to buy out the video game giant.

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Jan🧘‍♀️ @jfx9.bsky.social · 14d

And me! And it has still been worth it

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Jan🧘‍♀️ @jfx9.bsky.social · 14d

What if you realize who you are, embrace it at great personal cost, feel joy and lightness then the power of the government of the untied states is bent to build hate against you and your friends

Mickey’s in Cognitive Decline @mickeybiz.bsky.social · 14d

It’s a lamenting of the information environment that they (my own children included) are made to grow up in by chance alone.

But any time I “tried on” a pre-packaged identity, style, or sub-culture…there was *always* *something* *missing*.

So keep searching and you’ll find you. Don’t settle.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 16d

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

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Jan🧘‍♀️ @jfx9.bsky.social · 16d

if anyone knows how to replicate the sauce at Le Relais de Venise L'Entrecôte now is the time to do me a solid

Jan🧘‍♀️ @jfx9.bsky.social · 16d

Speaking of rounding up humans, not excited to see how the UK handles gender on their new mandatory ID cards

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 16d

Mandatory ID cards are a terrible, terrible idea
iandunt.substack.com/p/id-cards-a...

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Jan🧘‍♀️ @jfx9.bsky.social · 17d

Will they?

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Jan🧘‍♀️ @jfx9.bsky.social · 17d

Funny coincidence. Small piece of a much longer article which seems fine at first glance but also does not seem to address an existing literature

unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/mountains

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Jan🧘‍♀️ @jfx9.bsky.social · 17d

Did you read the newsletter about this today?

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