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Lilin Dhark von Ravenholm

@lilinravenholm.bsky.social

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Cranky, Goth, and trans. Failed writer. Miserable wretch. Perpetually suffering from the Curse of Cassandra. 🏳️‍⚧️ ☭

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Lilin Dhark von Ravenholm @lilinravenholm.bsky.social · Dec 12

Do you like communism? Do you like angry trans people? Do you like sass and dark humor? Do you like Goth stuff? Do you like cats?

If so, you followed the right person. Welcome. Don't mind the oubliette.

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Alex Mack 10 🇯🇲 @chillarybanks.com · 2h

Happy Indigenous People’s Day.

A beautiful Indigenous woman holding her middle finger up with a caption that says, “Fuck Christopher Columbus.”

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Andie Sophia 💛🤍💜🖤 @andiesophia.is · 26m

now and always

smiling Indigenous woman looking into the camera, giving the middle finger, captioned "fuck christopher columbus"

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 16h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 10h

We are going to Win

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 11h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 17h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Lilin Dhark von Ravenholm @lilinravenholm.bsky.social · 9h

That's definitely just diarrhea..... But RFK Jr. swims in raw sewage, so so, honestly it's expected that he's... eating..... that........

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10h

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 16h

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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zoeystardust.bsky.social @zoeystardust.bsky.social · 12d

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Sign the Petition

Stop Bluesky's Targeting of Palestinian Accounts

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Lilin Dhark von Ravenholm @lilinravenholm.bsky.social · 11h

I mean, I admit that their tacos are probably clogging my arteries and so they're not "good" for my health, but honestly I friggin' love their food. It's comfort food in a time where a lot of comfort is needed.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 12 Oct 1919 150 Royal Navy sailors mutinied and broke out of their ships at Port Edgar upon hearing they were being sent to the Baltic to fight against the Russian Revolution. The desertion prevented the First Destroyer Flotilla from departing stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8435...

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

If you're worried about Climate Change, it's billionaires
If you're worried about Mass Extinction, it's billionaires
If you're worried about poverty, it's billionaires
If you're worried about Genocide, it's billionaires

Unite to deal with the cause of ALL the problems, Greed.

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Lilin Dhark von Ravenholm @lilinravenholm.bsky.social · 12h

It's not very effective.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 14h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 21h

Don't forget that your homeless neighbors, the people living in the streets & out of their cars around you that you see every day, are part of your real world community.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 19h

this is the list of ideological identifiers laid out in the NSPM-7 that would predict violence, and are all of course, incredibly reasonable positions or just ridiculous framing, like “extremism on gender” which is just being pro-trans:

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Lilin Dhark von Ravenholm @lilinravenholm.bsky.social · 19h

I don't think I was online nearly enough to understand this conversation.

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Jubilee 🔞 @jethanded-wyvern.bsky.social · 1d

May there be justice yet for all these destroyed families torn apart by drones, by tanks, by soldiers, by fucking bulldozers.

The only state of Israel to exist in is a perpetual state of shame.

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 2d

Palestinian orphans in Gaza marching with photos of their dead parents

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Lilin Dhark von Ravenholm @lilinravenholm.bsky.social · 20h

Most of these "gamers" have never been near a woman that wasn't their mother.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 20h

lmfao

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 22h

It's not mutual aid because that person's not part of your community apparently even though you see them online, but why don't people get that we must expand our notion of community & get out of who white capitalism says is it is even to band together to get through our fascist predicament.

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 22h

there is no mechanism by which gestapo agents can be

l e g a l l y

held accountable for their crimes against humanity

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Lilin Dhark von Ravenholm @lilinravenholm.bsky.social · 21h

I wonder if he'll wake up one day after building his fascist new age, and realize that he was a the antichrist all along.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 22h

his state police are beating the shit out of anti gestapo protesters while he's on tv. democrat politicians are not opposed to fascism.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Willybongka Ⓐ☭ @willybongka2.bsky.social · 1d

Because liberalism enables fascism.

Julia Conaway Bondanella @arethusa131.bsky.social · 1d

Why are the media failing to report the truth about conditions in Portland, Chicago, Washington, DC, Baltimore, LA, etc.

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