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liz 🍉 ليز

@lizardry.bsky.social

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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · Jan 5

Starting a new post and linking directly to the fundraisers because Bluesky accounts are getting deleted so often. I will then comment with the Bluesky account below the fundraiser so you can follow or chat with them and try to update as needed. I also fixed the graphic because it was bugging me.

Dark rust-colored text on an off-white background that reads, from top to bottom:

#FreePalestine
Gazan Fundraisers
Donate & Boost
DM me to be added

At the bottom is a graphic of multiple hands holding Palestinian flags.

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 2h

Daily bunny no.3108 will grow into a beautiful butterfly

A very small bunny munches on a leaf, like a bug or caterpillar. The leaf is the same size as the bunny, and the bunny is beneath a flower in someone's yard or garden. It is a warm autumn day

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · Sep 6

It's hard to feel hopeful about us defeating fascism when a bunch of liberals with large accounts on this site waste time punching down on disabled folks, minimizing Covid & chronic illness.

Fascism starts with normalizing eugenics

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

Tish James lit up the room last night — and her words echoed far beyond the walls of The United Palace. This is a fight for the future.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9h

can't deport them somewhere they want to go

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 2d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 9h

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*

You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

Politico @politico.com · 13h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 6h

Imagine surgeons not wearing a mask just because they're not symptomatic.

"I didn't have a runny nose so I decided it was fine to breathe directly into your chest cavity."

liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 6h

"All viruses can hurt you so you should just stop worrying about viruses" uhhh no thank you?

liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 6h

Like I know you are just doing whataboutism but can you please think about what you just said?

liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 6h

Watching someone ask people to mask because COVID can cause long term damage and watching someone respond "all viruses cause damage" as LESS of a reason to mask and not MORE is truly stunning.

Ableism has absolutely cooked your brains.

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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 6h

Interesting that you see that as LESS reason to mask and not more.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 9h

Hey, Joad. I have long covid and a heart condition. If you give me Covid again, I could die. Could you maybe wear a mask around me to lower that chance?

Now please explain to me how refusing this request is not a violation of solidarity and how it is deeply unreasonable to it ask of you.

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Bex 🐸 (they/them/frog) @thinlyveiledtruth.bsky.social · 7h

I am immunocompromised.

One-way masking only does so much. I am MUCH safer in public spaces if other people mask too.

You can literally save a life by masking, and it takes little to no effort.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 7h

"Israel is going to halve the amount of aid that it will allow into Gaza under the ceasefire agreement, aid groups say."

"The Rafah crossing, formerly the largest border crossing for humanitarian aid, will remain closed indefinitely."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

Israel Says It’s Halving Aid Into Gaza After Receiving Last 20 Living Captives

Israel says Hamas hasn’t returned captives’ bodies — while still blocking entry of machinery that can clear rubble.

truthout.org

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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 8h

The way you bent over backwards to read this in the most offensive way possible makes it seem like you're no stranger to anti-Blackness

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 10h

If you have ever used the word "woke" in a pejorative manner...and I mean this sincerely...you were part of the onboarding process for making open bigotry ok again.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 10h

Look for the helpers

www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trump/

Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report

Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure a...

www.rawstory.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 9h

Federal officers delayed, threatened to ‘shoot and arrest’ ambulance crew at Portland ICE facility, report says

Willamette Week reported federal agents allegedly blocked an ambulance from quickly leaving with an injured protester on Oct. 5.

www.oregonlive.com

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 10h

I don't eat animal protein but I'll never call my diet 'cruelty free' because the people growing and harvesting the fruits and vegetables I eat work in conditions like this.

Cruelty to humans matters, too.

United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 10h

"Sara" has worked in Watsonville CAs strawberries for 16 yrs. "I earn piece rate. It's raining which makes the rows slippery and the mud sticks to our shoes. It's dangerous as we still need to work fast to make enough money to pay our bills." #WeFeedYou

A farm worker harvesting strawberries in the rain wearing a plastic poncho

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 10h

we’ve gone so far past “sex workers are the canaries in the coal mine” re: internet freedom, to an internet that’s run off and robbed from all the sex workers in order to replace them with planet-destroying simulations of sex workers

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 13h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 9h

I don't think people realize what an immediate impact this is going to have on outbreak response and containment.

Ferric Fang, MD @fangferric.bsky.social · 10h

According to a state epidemiologist, "CDC personnel who normally share information with state officials during outbreaks have been eliminated."

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1d

“One veteran researcher who still has his job (and, like other public-health workers I spoke with for this story, requested anonymity for fear of losing it) told me he believes that Kennedy’s ultimate goal is to “silence the scientific voice of career CDC scientists.””

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 10h

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.