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John Luc

@johnluc1111.bsky.social

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Nerd. Author. Editor for hire. Genderqueer transman. Pansexual and queer. ENM, BDSM, ADHD, ASD, PTSD, and some other fun acronyms.

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John Luc @johnluc1111.bsky.social · Jul 17

Keep these numbers handy:

Trans Lifeline: 877-565-8860
Trevor Project: 866-488-7386
Next Rung: 833-698-7864
LGBT Hotline: 888-843-5464
LGBT Youth Hotline: 800-246-7743
LGBT Elder Hotline: 888-234-7243
TrevorText: 678 678

Remember: LGBTQIA+ means family. Family means no one gets left behind.

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John Luc @johnluc1111.bsky.social · 3h

I’ve got a disturbing amount of weird thoughts.
Here they are a-running through my brain.
Deep thoughts.
Shower thoughts.
Things that come to your head.
Give ‘em a jot.
Then film the lot.
And post on Instagram.

#jokes #puns #DeepThoughts #ShowerThoughts #silliness

John Luc @johnluc1111.bsky.social · 1d

Ahem. #Georgia folks. Y’all my people. I’m here in #Atlanta, Fifth District. John Lewis’s turf. Hank makes good points. Listen to him.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Hey Georgia! @hankgreen.bsky.social has a convincing pitch for why you should vote AGAINST THE REPUBLICANS in the upcoming Georgia Public Service Commission special election! Potentially save consumers money, kick out some Rs, feel good! YOUR VOTE WILL COUNT HUGELY! www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

I Need 1% of Georgia to Watch This Video

YouTube video by Hank Green

www.youtube.com

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Psycho Pete @psychopete.bsky.social · 1d

For those protesting, read this first. Updated for the current moment: rights, surveillance, safety, de-escalation, arrest prep. This one matters. 📖 Guide: open.substack.com/pub/psychopete1/p/this-one-matters-a-no-kings-protest

This One Matters: A "No Kings" Protest Guide

For Oct 18 and beyond ...

open.substack.com

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John Luc @johnluc1111.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t have nice things in this house. Harrumph.

#jokes #puns #DadJokes #peppermint #sweets #candy #CantHaveNiceThings

John Luc @johnluc1111.bsky.social · 2d

I got an early birthday present from an amazing friend who knows me well. Labyrinth is one of my favorite movies. Who doesn’t love David Bowie in spandex?

#Labyrinth #tarot #TarotCards #TarotDeck #birthday

John Luc @johnluc1111.bsky.social · 2d

Bring attorneys to all of the protests and give them bullhorns

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 3d

Don Winslow

I think Democrats should implement this nationwide at all protests.

A competent attorney with a bullhorn directly communicating to law enforcement and the surrounding cameras.

This is a VERY smart idea.

John Luc @johnluc1111.bsky.social · 2d

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #ReleaseTheFiles

Jesus pokes his head into a white box and says “He’s in the files”.

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Alt DHS @altdhs.altgov.info · 2d

Hey ICE! Show your faces and display identification!

Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 2d

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Alt-IRS @alt-irs.altgov.info · 2d

Ya, and #Google can't even put a doodle on the landing page.

Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 3d

This country was built on the attempted genocide of Native Indigenous Indians by predominately white men.
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A sign that reads, "Colonial History Lied. When Europe showed up in North America, Indigenous people were not nomads, not few, not savage, not impoverished, not recent immigrants, and were not looking for salvation. Yes, Indigenous people had commerce, travel, economics, permanency, stewardship, inheritances, artistry, drama, ceremony, mourning, health care, politics, justice, penance, peacekeeping, and STILL DO."
~Department of Anticolonial history

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Alt DHS @altdhs.altgov.info · 2d

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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 3d

1 - 1st guy says - "tell me more about these "inflatable frog people""

2 - completely bald guy in black robe says 'they're violent terrorists. extremists. one twerked at me and I got horny so I pepper sprayed it"

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

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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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 3d

These guys are absolutely going to shoot more people.

They’ve already killed one man, shot a woman, and we’ve seen a pattern of pulling firearms on unarmed people doing nothing violent or illegal over the past few weeks.

Clearly they do not care at all about the temporary restraining orders.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 3d

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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John Luc @johnluc1111.bsky.social · 3d

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

(Text credit to @mollyknight.bsky.social—thank you for posting this!)

Form a crowd. Stay loud. Protect each other. A graphic explaining how and why a sports whistle is effective for alerting others in the area to ICE agents.

John Luc @johnluc1111.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve driven for one hundred days consecutively. Progress is slow but it’s still progress. I’m proud of myself for doing this. And I’m gonna keep at it until I can haul arse out of Atlanta.

#driving #progress #pride #Honda #OneHundredDays

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 3d

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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John Luc @johnluc1111.bsky.social · 3d

I do cook a lot of bacon

John Luc @johnluc1111.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, I’ll bet you say that to all the girls 🤭

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John Luc @johnluc1111.bsky.social · 3d

I just wanted to show off my pepper plants. I grew them from seed. I’m bringing them in for the winter soon, but I’ll be starting more seedlings in December or January.

#pepper #vegetables #gardening #UrbanFarming #plants #Pepperland

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John Luc @johnluc1111.bsky.social · 4d

[2:12] Happy National Coming Out Day! I need to come out myself… as a nerd. A transgender sci-fi/fantasy nerd who watched a LOT of Doctor Who in the 1980s. And I’m good with that.

#ComingOut #lgbt #transgender #nerd #pansexual

John Luc @johnluc1111.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Coming Out Day, everyone! I wrote a silly, fun poem for some bisexual friends who sometimes feel invalidated.

If you’re in love
With a guy
Doesn’t matter
You’re still bi
If your bae
Is a chick
You’re still bi
If you like dick
All the genders
Are really hot
So go out there
And be a bi thot 🥰

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Resistance Rangers @resistancerangers.bsky.social · 4d

🫠It’s day 11 of the government shutdown, and there have been reports of human impacts & resource damage across parks. You love the parks! We get it, we really do - but the best way to support parks is to leave them alone right now.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 5d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine that

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John Luc @johnluc1111.bsky.social · 4d

HEY. I’M A LIBRA AND you can’t be reading me like this like I’m a gd Dr Seuss book

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