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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Martin Rosner @hotpaper.bsky.social · 11d

If money is the root of all evil then I'm pure of heart

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utop(ian) @junkpan.bsky.social · 8d

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utop(ian) @junkpan.bsky.social · 8d

When @cheekface.bsky.social said

“Everyone cool will die.
Everyone weird will also die.
What lives on is the destruction caused my market economics”

I felt that

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 14d

There are a few people that are inspirations to almost all scientists that I know, and Jane Goodall was one of them. RIP. 😢

Jane Goodall, the celebrated primatologist and conservationist, has died

Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.

apnews.com

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 21d

a picture of anthony bourdain with the edited caption "once you meet women you'll never stop wanting to hold their hands with your bare hands" - anthony bourdain

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 23d

The destructive nature of the current feudalized version of capitalism needs to be talked about more on social media.

"The 1% who rule the world may have turned
the pursuit of money and power into a kind of
pathological game that are ends in themselves, but
for the rest of us, having money, having an income,
being free from debt, has come to mean having the
power to pursue something other than money.

We all want to ensure our loved ones are safe, and
taken care of. We all want to live in healthy and
beautiful communities but beyond that, the things
we wish to pursue are likely to be wildly different.
What if freedom were the ability to make up our
minds about what it was we wished to pursue, with
whom we wished to pursue it, and what sort of
commitments we wish to make to them in the
process?"

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- David Graeber

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · Sep 12

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · Sep 9

The yes hahaha yes sickos meme but it's PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT TO DIE IN THE CLIMATE APOCALYPSE

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · Aug 24

I come with empty hands and the desire to unbuild walls.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · Jul 9

ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through August 22nd! ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽

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BEAVE @beaveinflow.bsky.social · Aug 17

Here’s a photo of my cat trying to catch a bubble. You’re welcome.

Orange Tabby cat, Greg, standing tall on his hind toe beans with front paws stretched straight in the air trying to catch a catnip bubble floating above his head.

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dillo (yakubian mamba) @dillo.media · Nov 11

minimalism is a scam invented by big small to sell more less

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · Aug 9

My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.

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ScholarlyCowboy @scholarlycowboy.bsky.social · Aug 7

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · Aug 7

Already untold thousands of creative geniuses--brilliant would-be musicians, writers, painters, filmmakers, you name it--are working as janitors, short-order cooks, agricultural workers, Amazon warehouse employees, etc., and that's the world THEY WANT! One with a class of poor, trapped workers.

Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · Aug 7

I don’t know why this incenses me as much as it does, but it does:

we very likely have a thousand plus Mozarts *right now*. But they make non-Western art in economically destitute conditions so they have to do other work to pay bills; if you cared, UBI’d be more important to you than going to space

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’

“I think in a lot of these endeavors we're very like-minded,” Bezos said of himself and Musk regarding getting humans into space.

finance.yahoo.com

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · Aug 5

From David Graeber's 'Revolutions in Reverse' (2011).

Neo-liberal capitalism is that form that is utterly obsessed with ensuring that it seems that, as Margaret Thatcher so famously declared in the 1980s, “there is no alternative.”

In other words, neo-liberalism has largely given up on any serious effort to argue that the current economic order is actually a good order and given up trying to prove it can create a world in which most human beings feel prosperous, safe, and free to spend any significant portion of their life pursuing those things they consider genuinely important.

Rather, it is a terrible system, in which even the very richest countries cannot guarantee access to such basic needs as health and education to the majority of their citizens. Yes they say it works badly - but they want you to believe no other system could possibly work at all!

- David Graeber

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jason @thickyrubio.bsky.social · Aug 4

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · Aug 3

I'm stress-maxxing. I'm losing sleep pilled. I'm in my fuck fuck fuck era

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · Oct 4

Racoon: what is this stuff?

Me: it’s our garbage

Racoon: it’s delicious, I understand why you chase me away from it, do you eat it?

Me: no we’re trying to get rid of it

Racoon: ok I guess I don’t fucking understand at all then

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Jul 30

#OtD 30 Jul 2006 Murray Bookchin died at age 85. Bookchin was an American libertarian socialist and founder of social ecology and libertarian municipalism. Read a remembrance here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1029...

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · Jul 30

Murray Bookchin, who died this day in 2006: "If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable."

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Jul 30

#OtD 30 Jul 2006 Murray Bookchin died at age 85. Bookchin was an American libertarian socialist and founder of social ecology and libertarian municipalism. Read a remembrance here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1029...

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · Jul 28

Ursula Le Guin: “A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. 1/2

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