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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 3h

On the @prospectmagazine.co.uk podcast we spoke the other day about parts of the conservative press speed-running the Niemoller poem and we have gone from stop the boats, to deporting asylum seekers, to deporting legal migrants, to deporting people with ILR, to now deporting ethnic minority MPs…

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 6h

This should lead to Calgie being exiled from any decent journalistic circle.

It won't, of course

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 21h

A mainstream “journalist” calling for a British MP to be deported. Is it because I’m Muslim? Next time, just say it with your chest.

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 2h

Sulzberger’s nyt has played a major role in legitimising extremist views posing as research. He once pubbed 4,500w on a report re detransitioning that had been *retracted* by its publisher for its fundamental flaws. It had not been peer reviewed, which should always be a red flag to real journalists

Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 1d

Kaufmann prolifically publishes think-tank reports with far-right funding and no peer review. His aim is to push various reactionary views into public policy. Like many others of his ilk, he has lighted onto anti-trans bigotry as his vehicle. Previously, academic freedom was his hot conduit.

Look over There! An Academic Freedom Crisis!

If you have followed think tank reports on academic freedom over the past number of years, you will have already noticed the pattern I…

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 10h

Maybe let’s get the word out on this again, for no reason in particular.

Davis Bickford @davis.social · Nov 11

Welcome to Bluesky 💙🦋

Venn Diagram of 3 circles:
BE KIND
BLOCK FAST
HAVE FUN

An arrow points to thee intersection of all 3 circles:
YOU CAN BE HERE

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Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 20h

hello to all the new folks here! this is my entire deal. I pour all my energy and passion into making this comic and it would rule if you checked it out.

Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · May 12

Happy #WebcomicDay!! I'm Kody and I make KEEPING TIME. It's a queer, slow burn, absolute bummer of a romantic drama between bandmates with a complicated history, set against the backdrop of the '00s. It updates Tuesdays!

🎸 keepingtimecomic.com

A comic page from KEEPING TIME. Daniel, a Japanese American man, has stopped playing a piano, and looks out towards Denver, a blond punk in a leather jacket with a neck tattoo who is standing in front of him like he's seen a ghost. The blue light of the stage clashes with the warm light of the bar that illuminates Denver's back. The narration reads, "… the rest of the song suddenly comes flooding back to you." A caption title says, "CHAPTER 1: 2:45 AM"

A panel from the webcomic KEEPING TIME. In the foreground, a blond punk with a neck tattoo lifts the lid of a dumpster, while two figures stand behind him. He says, "Oh. I mean, I dropped in on the pizza place next door for a slice, too."

Part of a comic page. Denver, a blond punk with a neck tattoo glances towards Daniel, a Japanese guy in a winter parka. In the final panel, Denver asks, "...Walk you home?"

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Your Cyberpunk Future @lady8jane.bsky.social · 14h

These videos just make me so happy! Check out the channel, it's great. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik8w...

Building with Flowers is Hard - Becorns Episode 5

YouTube video by Becorns | David M Bird

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“Surely, she dies first” Jackson @lioninthetrees.bsky.social · 21h

Kumiho Totem 🦊🔥✨

My piece for the upcoming Giant Robot Store Yokai exhibition celebrating folklore and fables!

My piece will be available tomorrow at 11am PT on their site here:
www.giantrobot.com/collections/...

#art #pottery

A black sgraffito ceramic 3-tailed fox sculpture. There are orange flames and California Poppies carved into it’s body.
It is holding a handmade red tassel in it’s mouth that also has a fortune coin tied into the tassel itself.

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Woman whose eyes are nothing like the sun... @sonnet130.bsky.social · 18h

This tragic but excellent article needs to be read by everyone throughout the country. The Republicans want to kill public ed. They are using state takeovers and charter school owning charlatans like Mike Miles (and his abusive NES) to do it. See at what they are stealing from our (soon your) kids!🧵

Nusaiba Mizan @nusaiba.bsky.social · 18h

By @houstonchronicle.com columnist Lisa Falkenberg: "Books — actual books, with dust jackets, spines, whimsical illustrations, and characters and cliffhangers — are increasingly unwelcome in the land of worksheets and slide shows." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Falkenberg: Mike Miles takes story books from HISD kindergarteners

First HISD took the libraries. Now teachers say the district’s curriculum leaves no room for storybooks and some are secretly reading to students anyway.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 17h

“in America teachers can be fired for reading books with students”

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Your Cyberpunk Future @lady8jane.bsky.social · 14h

It's not only the shame they are missing. It is this weird balance between shame and "oh well, I'll just go to confession" attitude about doing things you are not really supposed to. It is taking the whole religion very seriously and not at all at the same time that makes a Catholic.

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heathcliff, but frog @hopcliff.heathcliff.cat · 23h

based nancy

two panels of a Nancy comic by Ernie Bushmiller. Nancy sees a NOTICE board and then blacks out the T with a pencil so the board reads NO ICE. Nancy smiles.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 15h

Naser and Lubna need medicine and food

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Kenzie @mhargreaves.bsky.social · 15h

This is my friends campaign. He lives in Gaza and desperately needs help.
chuffed.org/project/1307...

Help Support Kazem and his Family

(This campaign was created and managed by Mackenzie Hargreaves, a mother and University student in the US Midwest. She is a close friend of Kazem.)

chuffed.org

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 15h

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 20h

Mitqual’s son needs treatment for his foot

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 15h

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 19h

One of his kids had his bones broken. They need to afford treatment.

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Your Cyberpunk Future @lady8jane.bsky.social · 19h

I was wondering for a second if this was paid ad by the Mamdani campaign. 😅

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Felicia Day @felicia.day · 20h

I need a poster for a scripted podcast made, please reply with portfolios!!!!

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Evlyn Moreau @evlynmoreau.bsky.social · 19h

"Antifa, the evil anti fascist movement is financed by the darkest corners of the deep shadow tenebrous web, nefarious groups like:
- Mutual Aid
- Crowdfunding
- Helping people
- Caring for the poor
- Peaceful help
- Caring even more
- Love and respect your neighbour"

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Your Cyberpunk Future @lady8jane.bsky.social · 19h

Oh wow, this is gorgeous! Instant follow!!!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20h

1. New York City Public Schools has announced that it will defy Trump's demands to ban trans students from bathrooms, funding threats be damned.

Instead, it has launched a lawsuit against the admin and declared it will not throw trans students under the bus.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

NYC Public Schools Becomes Latest To Defy Trump Trans Bathroom Ban Demands, Launches Lawsuit

“U.S. DOE’s threat to cut off tens of millions of dollars in magnet funding unless we cancelled our protections for transgender and gender expansive students is contrary to |law|"

www.erininthemorning.com

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skunkwerks.bsky.social @skunkwerks.bsky.social · 1d

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priyAAAAAA chand @priyachand.bsky.social · 22h

the most useful thing I've gotten at a protest is contacts!

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3d

And a bunch of progressive groups will probably show up with their banners and flyers. And those are groups you can join, in your community, to get involved with for other great, effective, and life-affirming ways to push back against fascism!

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Kinda Rami 🍉 @luk125.bsky.social · 1d

Just as you defend every child’s right to safety and justice, imagine a child without a home, hungry, and cold after losing everything. Kinda is 4, scared, and alone. Your support isn’t charity, it’s justice, compassion, and hope in action. Help her survive. 💔🙏
gofund.me/edd687b8

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Your Cyberpunk Future @lady8jane.bsky.social · 1d

My first really successful post is about Lowly Worm's Applecar. I kinda like what that says about me. ☺️

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

eagerly awaiting the catholic breakdown of this because I have no idea what it means but it seems like Chicago Pope is on a roll??????? somewhere???

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 1d

If you need something like a doorbell camera or other home security cameras, I recommend Reolink.

They can function without any kind of internet connection and once you complete the initial setup they can be controlled entirely locally via Home Assistant.

No tattling, no cops.

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 1d

I can't even stand it here

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