Peter Pumpkin 🎃
@nanou2.bsky.social
If you're wondering whether I said something in earnest, I DID. Minneapolis antifascist & abolitionist. Parent, neighbor, queer. He/him. Fuck the police. Angrily spreading joy.
Banner pic: X-Men's Wolverine saying, "Pete! What's wrong with you?
Banner pic: X-Men's Wolverine saying, "Pete! What's wrong with you?
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Peter Pumpkin 🎃
@nanou2.bsky.social
· Jan 21
The Year Without Sunshine - Uncanny Magazine
During one of the much smaller disasters that preceded the really big disaster, I met a lot of my neighbors online. I can’t remember if we set up the WhatsApp group because of the pandemic or the civi...
www.uncannymagazine.com
A few months ago, I FINALLY read this short fiction from our local SF&F author (among other things) Naomi Kritzer (@naomikritzer.bsky.social). It's a post-disaster story, but in the vein of Hope Punk & Solar Punk.
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-... 1/2
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-... 1/2
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Every day I get a couple of dozen demands from Zionists that I debate them. And as my platform has grown across Threads and Bluesky, they've only increased.
I don't debate genocide apologists. It's why I turn down interview requests from shows that platform Alan Dershowitz and Bari Weiss,
I don't debate genocide apologists. It's why I turn down interview requests from shows that platform Alan Dershowitz and Bari Weiss,
December 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Every day I get a couple of dozen demands from Zionists that I debate them. And as my platform has grown across Threads and Bluesky, they've only increased.
I don't debate genocide apologists. It's why I turn down interview requests from shows that platform Alan Dershowitz and Bari Weiss,
I don't debate genocide apologists. It's why I turn down interview requests from shows that platform Alan Dershowitz and Bari Weiss,
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There are so many people living lives of quiet dignity despite horrific medical news or poverty or tragedy where every day they still wake up and try to be good people in the world even as the world pushes against them and it makes me even angrier at the absolute shitheads that rule over things
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
There are so many people living lives of quiet dignity despite horrific medical news or poverty or tragedy where every day they still wake up and try to be good people in the world even as the world pushes against them and it makes me even angrier at the absolute shitheads that rule over things
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I spent the first 20yrs of my adult life without dental insurance and, therefore, without dental care. I now do my 2x/yr and just got done with my winter cleaning. The mental wellbeing alone is incredible.
We absolutely have to include dental care in Universal Healthcare plans, especially for kids.
We absolutely have to include dental care in Universal Healthcare plans, especially for kids.
December 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I spent the first 20yrs of my adult life without dental insurance and, therefore, without dental care. I now do my 2x/yr and just got done with my winter cleaning. The mental wellbeing alone is incredible.
We absolutely have to include dental care in Universal Healthcare plans, especially for kids.
We absolutely have to include dental care in Universal Healthcare plans, especially for kids.
ICE is literally camping out in their cars near schools. They are preying on us when we're trying to collect our kiddos from school.
I need you to do whatever you can to fight this fascist shit.
bsky.app/profile/iruk...
I need you to do whatever you can to fight this fascist shit.
bsky.app/profile/iruk...
Minneapolis, ICE is fucking your city up, stealing your neighbors. A lot of us are showing up, chasing ICE off, coordinating with business, protecting schools at release. Good on you, and thank you!
There are LOTS of ways to show up! Connecting with your neighbors is step 1.
Love, and solidarity!
There are LOTS of ways to show up! Connecting with your neighbors is step 1.
Love, and solidarity!
December 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
ICE is literally camping out in their cars near schools. They are preying on us when we're trying to collect our kiddos from school.
I need you to do whatever you can to fight this fascist shit.
bsky.app/profile/iruk...
I need you to do whatever you can to fight this fascist shit.
bsky.app/profile/iruk...
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Yeah I like waymo. Waymo public transit, bike lanes and benches!
December 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Yeah I like waymo. Waymo public transit, bike lanes and benches!
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Brutal day in Minneapolis, but there were some shining moments of neighbors stopping some abductions, kicking Nazis out of some spaces, chasing them out of others. And there were about 1,000 ppl on an excellent ICE WATCH training zoom led by States At The Center and Protect Rogers Park in Chicago.
December 4, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Brutal day in Minneapolis, but there were some shining moments of neighbors stopping some abductions, kicking Nazis out of some spaces, chasing them out of others. And there were about 1,000 ppl on an excellent ICE WATCH training zoom led by States At The Center and Protect Rogers Park in Chicago.
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I'm rocking the wee lad to sleep in an easy chair with a squeak that sounds EXACTLY like the range-finding motion detectors from ALIENS.
December 4, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I'm rocking the wee lad to sleep in an easy chair with a squeak that sounds EXACTLY like the range-finding motion detectors from ALIENS.
I'm rocking the wee lad to sleep in an easy chair with a squeak that sounds EXACTLY like the range-finding motion detectors from ALIENS.
December 4, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I'm rocking the wee lad to sleep in an easy chair with a squeak that sounds EXACTLY like the range-finding motion detectors from ALIENS.
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
December 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
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So when the gods accept human sacrifice, it's fine, but when they leave and a woman takes matters into her own hands (& knife) to call them back, suddenly it's a problem 🙄
NO GODS FOR DROWNING hits exactly 3 months from today from @badhandbooks.bsky.social
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/no-gods-fo...
NO GODS FOR DROWNING hits exactly 3 months from today from @badhandbooks.bsky.social
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/no-gods-fo...
December 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
So when the gods accept human sacrifice, it's fine, but when they leave and a woman takes matters into her own hands (& knife) to call them back, suddenly it's a problem 🙄
NO GODS FOR DROWNING hits exactly 3 months from today from @badhandbooks.bsky.social
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/no-gods-fo...
NO GODS FOR DROWNING hits exactly 3 months from today from @badhandbooks.bsky.social
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/no-gods-fo...
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“Sweet singing headband overalls lady is an enemy of the people” - normal person for sure
December 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
“Sweet singing headband overalls lady is an enemy of the people” - normal person for sure
@jcsalterego.bsky.social, you have my heart 🫶
opening a fine cigar box to reveal mozzarella sticks
December 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM
@jcsalterego.bsky.social, you have my heart 🫶
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Minneapolis, ICE is fucking your city up, stealing your neighbors. A lot of us are showing up, chasing ICE off, coordinating with business, protecting schools at release. Good on you, and thank you!
There are LOTS of ways to show up! Connecting with your neighbors is step 1.
Love, and solidarity!
There are LOTS of ways to show up! Connecting with your neighbors is step 1.
Love, and solidarity!
December 4, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Minneapolis, ICE is fucking your city up, stealing your neighbors. A lot of us are showing up, chasing ICE off, coordinating with business, protecting schools at release. Good on you, and thank you!
There are LOTS of ways to show up! Connecting with your neighbors is step 1.
Love, and solidarity!
There are LOTS of ways to show up! Connecting with your neighbors is step 1.
Love, and solidarity!
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Other ways:
- Program (612) 441-2881 into your phone and call it if you see ICE
- Print or buy bulk whistles
- Print and fold zines
- Talk with friends, family, and neighbors about ICE
- Follow @mspwhistles.bsky.social
- Take a Mirac or Monarca training
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- Program (612) 441-2881 into your phone and call it if you see ICE
- Print or buy bulk whistles
- Print and fold zines
- Talk with friends, family, and neighbors about ICE
- Follow @mspwhistles.bsky.social
- Take a Mirac or Monarca training
>
Minneapolis, ICE is fucking your city up, stealing your neighbors. A lot of us are showing up, chasing ICE off, coordinating with business, protecting schools at release. Good on you, and thank you!
There are LOTS of ways to show up! Connecting with your neighbors is step 1.
Love, and solidarity!
There are LOTS of ways to show up! Connecting with your neighbors is step 1.
Love, and solidarity!
December 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Other ways:
- Program (612) 441-2881 into your phone and call it if you see ICE
- Print or buy bulk whistles
- Print and fold zines
- Talk with friends, family, and neighbors about ICE
- Follow @mspwhistles.bsky.social
- Take a Mirac or Monarca training
>
- Program (612) 441-2881 into your phone and call it if you see ICE
- Print or buy bulk whistles
- Print and fold zines
- Talk with friends, family, and neighbors about ICE
- Follow @mspwhistles.bsky.social
- Take a Mirac or Monarca training
>
Minneapolis, ICE is fucking your city up, stealing your neighbors. A lot of us are showing up, chasing ICE off, coordinating with business, protecting schools at release. Good on you, and thank you!
There are LOTS of ways to show up! Connecting with your neighbors is step 1.
Love, and solidarity!
There are LOTS of ways to show up! Connecting with your neighbors is step 1.
Love, and solidarity!
December 4, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Minneapolis, ICE is fucking your city up, stealing your neighbors. A lot of us are showing up, chasing ICE off, coordinating with business, protecting schools at release. Good on you, and thank you!
There are LOTS of ways to show up! Connecting with your neighbors is step 1.
Love, and solidarity!
There are LOTS of ways to show up! Connecting with your neighbors is step 1.
Love, and solidarity!
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Protect Trans kids, protect immigrants, the unhoused, the disabled. Stand with women, with children, with the indigenous, the incarcerated. STAND THE FUCK UP. EVERY TIME.
December 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Protect Trans kids, protect immigrants, the unhoused, the disabled. Stand with women, with children, with the indigenous, the incarcerated. STAND THE FUCK UP. EVERY TIME.
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This also means your at-risk neighbors are going to need you, trusted connections, to step up and help with transportation.
MN folk, beware -- ICE is now impersonating Uber drivers, according to Minneapolis city council member Jason Chavez in a Facebook post.
if yall see something, call the monarca hotline. you can find it, along with legal observer trainings, here - monarcamn.org/training
if yall see something, call the monarca hotline. you can find it, along with legal observer trainings, here - monarcamn.org/training
December 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This also means your at-risk neighbors are going to need you, trusted connections, to step up and help with transportation.
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#Minneapolis, word is our Somali community - our NEIGHBORS - are getting dogpiled on social media. Stand up and make noise for our neighbors! They need us! Be kind, AND brook no bullshit from bigots. Do not engage, just block. Deprive them of your attention.
December 3, 2025 at 1:52 AM
#Minneapolis, word is our Somali community - our NEIGHBORS - are getting dogpiled on social media. Stand up and make noise for our neighbors! They need us! Be kind, AND brook no bullshit from bigots. Do not engage, just block. Deprive them of your attention.
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If Stranger Things was remade today and set the same number of years ago as S1 it would be in 2003 and instead of a resurgence of a Kate Bush song it would be Hoobastank, the kids would dress up for Halloween like Neo and Trinity. No I can’t prove this is actually correct I am not going to do math.
December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
If Stranger Things was remade today and set the same number of years ago as S1 it would be in 2003 and instead of a resurgence of a Kate Bush song it would be Hoobastank, the kids would dress up for Halloween like Neo and Trinity. No I can’t prove this is actually correct I am not going to do math.
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1725: Why the fuck did I lose my left hand for the same wages I earned while being 10x more productive than last year? Who the fuck is benefiting here?
2025: Why am I losing my job to a machine that encourages kids to kill themselves and can't actually do my job? Who the fuck is benefiting here?
2025: Why am I losing my job to a machine that encourages kids to kill themselves and can't actually do my job? Who the fuck is benefiting here?
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
1725: Why the fuck did I lose my left hand for the same wages I earned while being 10x more productive than last year? Who the fuck is benefiting here?
2025: Why am I losing my job to a machine that encourages kids to kill themselves and can't actually do my job? Who the fuck is benefiting here?
2025: Why am I losing my job to a machine that encourages kids to kill themselves and can't actually do my job? Who the fuck is benefiting here?
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"I produce 10x more than I did last year but still make the same money. And the machine I now use eats human fingers. Who the fuck is benefiting here?"
Not a difficult issue, not a weird position for a person to have.
Not a difficult issue, not a weird position for a person to have.
December 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"I produce 10x more than I did last year but still make the same money. And the machine I now use eats human fingers. Who the fuck is benefiting here?"
Not a difficult issue, not a weird position for a person to have.
Not a difficult issue, not a weird position for a person to have.
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An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
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“I just want there to be a car that drives itself so I can get places without thinking about it”
hello, please meet: train.
also see: bus
hello, please meet: train.
also see: bus
December 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“I just want there to be a car that drives itself so I can get places without thinking about it”
hello, please meet: train.
also see: bus
hello, please meet: train.
also see: bus
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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Concessions to fascists NEVER decreases harm, never protects anyone, & only accelerates & broadens harm to the next marginalized party, until all you have are white people supplicating to other white people because now even white people are in danger. You have to stand NOW, OR THE DAMAGE INCREASES.
Stripping all girls of access to support orgs would be a win for the fascists. Living to fight another day is the wiser move than either giving up even more ground than was even challenged, or blowing yourself up in a futile “stand” on “principle”.
December 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Concessions to fascists NEVER decreases harm, never protects anyone, & only accelerates & broadens harm to the next marginalized party, until all you have are white people supplicating to other white people because now even white people are in danger. You have to stand NOW, OR THE DAMAGE INCREASES.