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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 17h

I feel blessed to not know 🙏

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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · Feb 23

Pisses me off that we’re stardust with the gift of conscious existence and having to spend our time on all this bullshit.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 22h

No money in the red kettles. Mutual aid instead.
(And no, I'm not taking questions about this.)

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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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 1d

I'm sitting here thinking about having a 15 daughter being chased down and abducted by masked men while the local police watch and let them carry her away to god-knows where w/zero accountability

we have to understand that girls are in severe danger of sexual violence from anonymous ICE goons

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 17h

I'll just leave this here 🤷‍♀️

Diane Keaton defends Woody Allen over abuse allegations

The actress says she "continues to believe" the director after claims against him resurfaced.

www.bbc.com

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 6d

"If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the United States were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world."

"This is what happens when a sitting president wages war on an American city."
#Illinois #USA #Policing #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago

As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

inthesetimes.com

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · Aug 26

THESE COLORS DON'T RUN

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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TheHRTLocker @thehrtlocker.bsky.social · 1d

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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 1d

Sick and fucking tired of being a wage slave in a genocidal-imperialist state on a planet that is dying because some rich cunt wants another yacht.
How is that unreasonable?

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

people are going to post AI slop...sometimes they just do not realize it at the time and have the good graces to delete it

but if they are told and keep posting it your safest action is just to block them because they will continue to spread it

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 1d

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

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aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · 2d

well, there you have it

A graph that asks "DOES FAST FASHION CAUSE AUTISM?*" with an orange and a blue graph rising over time. The blue graph is generally a few deviations above the orange line. The blue line represents SHEIN SALES and the orange one is AUTISM RATES except *No, this is a fake graph. from @audhd-psychnp.com

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

You won’t know the next pandemic is happening until your neighbors or family start getting sick.
the governments goal now is to make the world more Darwinian and dangerous so those seen as weak(read poor and minorities) will die and those they see as strong (read wealthy and white) survive

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 1d

He got the shots that his own HHS is telling you are not necessary

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 1d

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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monique @thejournalista.com · 1d

I'm not into Labubu because I lived through Beanie Babies, and I'm not doing that shit again.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 1d

A HAIR STYLIST not BRUSHING HER TEETH?!?! omg

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA is a death cult.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 1d

Lìnk.

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 1d

Link.

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 1d

Link.

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 2d

Dear everyone who doesn't wear a mask in public:

If you didn't know that there's going to be widespread disability inside of a decade thanks to people getting COVID repeatedly, well you do now.

Sorry

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