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Le Wokisme? or La Botte? @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 5h

The end of Section 2 of the VRA means that House elections need to be totally restructured. There’s no other choice. We’re not going back to no Black representation in the US House. Beyond unacceptable.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2h

Telling work I'm not coming to any more zoom meetings because I'm trying to limit my screen time

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 5h

Thank God

Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 5h

600 humanitarian aid trucks entered Gaza today despite earlier threats to reduce aid.

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Aid trucks roll into Gaza as dispute over hostage bodies is paused

Israel resumed preparations to open the main Rafah crossing after a dispute over the return of the bodies of dead hostages that had threatened to derail the fragile ceasefire deal with Hamas.

www.reuters.com

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 7h

“Blithely naming a character something ridiculous” is a well-established Star Wars tradition.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

Welcome to Bluesky: Weird Al is on here but you sometimes don’t immediately get told that. That’s most of the important information.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 10h

I am honestly such a disgrace to the fanfic community this Kinktober.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 10h

I endorse this plan!

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 1d

Nice argument. However, I have already depicted myself as a smoking velocipede queen and you as a flopping fop.

Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 1d

an old drawing of a bad b smoking and hitting a male bicyclist with her bike. The caption “THE AWFUL EFFECTS OF VELOCIPEDING”

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 10h

Netanyahu is a cruel and stupid opportunist who would nuke Tel Aviv if he could be PM of the ashes. Ben Gvir is one of history’s monsters.

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 11h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 16h

This isn't to deny that democracy *is* in crisis. I'm highlighting that the crisis is in part manufactured by the populist right as a weapon of power. Per @polphilpod.bsky.social, there's agency here. So, no, democracy did not have it coming due to insufficient leftism; it's being killed by fascists

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15h

This morning in Astoria — alongside State Senate Education Chair John Liu, City Council Education Chair Rita Joseph, and UFT VP Mary Vacaro — we released “Community to Classroom,” a new citywide teacher recruitment initiative.

Zohran at a podium in a park. Behind him are State Sen. John Liu, Councilmember Rita Joseph, and UFT VP Mary Vacaro.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 17h

Every single person who actually shows up to a protest is contributing more than all the online protest critiquers combined

BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 17h

"who he right attacks, we defend"

How hard is this??? Its a very simply rule!

If the right is attacking, we are defending.

Anyway, i will be there are Saturday in my portland frog costume

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 1d

Iron, common broom, vin chaud.

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 1d

What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 1d

Brad Dourif!

LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 1d

I think it’s mostly an anti-Catholic anti-celibacy thing but he is out here thundering out the iambs about how good and virtuous it is to fuck your wife.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 1d

Rereading Paradise Lost and I had forgotten how adamant Milton is that Adam and Eve were fucking before the Fall.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t even know what the discourse is and I will not be making any effort to learn.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 1d

Like it’s not that I think some door knocking is all that stood between him and victory, because it was a messy race, it’s just that I don’t know, it might have been a closer call?

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 1d

I think so so often about how I went out to volunteer as a canvasser for Jamaal Bowman and the buses were blocked by protesters calling him a Zionist sell-out and then he lost and people said AIPAC got him.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 1d

Utterly unsurprising, and if there’s any bright spot, it’s that some Republican electeds have either enough conscience or enough self-preservation to denounce it — the statement from the White House is notably the ugliest response the journalists get. Because that’s where the bigots feel most free.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 1d

I think it was intended to be laudatory.

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M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · 1d

I had the honor of once organizing a dialogue between Miss Major and Tourmaline for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, hosted by the NYPL. Major was a people’s hero, a tremendous force of revolutionary commitment and love.

@genderhorizon speaking at a podium in a New York Public Library event space, with the back of people’s heads in the audience

Tourmaline and Miss Manor on a stage at the New York Public Library, sitting in dialogue

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 2d

I have but I’d forgotten that!

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 2d

(I don’t actually think that.)

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 2d

I think all writers should be forced to write sonnets, just to prove they can, and they should be in the front of the book as a certificate of professional competency.

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