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Joan 🐈‍⬛ (but spoopy)

@profwitch.bsky.social

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anti-fascist & goth-adjacent interdisciplinary artist, actual professor, & game developer. opinions my own! support artists & yr local media! 💕 ✨she/her, bi, witch/wiccan, disabled ✨contact: [email protected] ✨more info: https://linktr.ee/profgoggles

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Joan 🐈‍⬛ (but spoopy) @profwitch.bsky.social · Jan 2

given everything happening - and if i can self promote just a little - now seems like a good time to bring this video back around.

The Media Literacy Guidebook #2: 5 Ways to Question What You Consume

YouTube video by LadyGoggles

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Joan 🐈‍⬛ (but spoopy) @profwitch.bsky.social · 35m

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 3h

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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The Marriage Braggart @bombsfall.bsky.social · 6h

If the US can ever vomit this stupid era out we're gonna need widespread all-ages education on basic facts like when you'd see old billboards or MST3k shorts advertising the concept of hand washing or being good. Stop Using Gasoline To Wash Clothes. Springs Are Ubiquitous & Essential To Modern Life

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 5h

lol liars, every one. Chicago cops threatened to quit if Brandon Johnson was elected mayor. Police union leader LITERALLY threatened "blood in the streets," saying between 800 to 1,000 would walk.

Guess what never happened.

And even if they'd made good on that threat... OK??? BYE????

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Saki 🦄🪶✦Fae NTVtuber✦【NTVN】【V-Chunky】 @nightmaresakito.bsky.social · 2d

A beautiful native woman flipping the bird in response to Monday, Oct. 13th, Columbus Day. “Fuck Christopher Columbus.” Happy Indigenous People’s Day!

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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The Reel Jon 🦌🎬🍉 @thereeljon.mov · 4h

There's a reason generative AI became so readily adopted by fascists: neither the companies who created it nor the fascists who use it care about art beyond the end product. Tech oligarchs just want easy profit, fascists just want easily generated propaganda. Everything else is meaningless.

Futurism @futurism.com · 4h

"Lmfao, that was beautiful and before you ask I voted for this!"

Trump Supporters Are Using OpenAI's Sora to Generate AI Videos of Soldiers Assaulting Protesters

It's a fascinating look into the effort to drum up consent for an unprecedented crackdown on American cities.

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 7h

This reminds me of how David Lynch said he wanted to keep working but couldn’t because COVID posed too great a risk & people stopped being willing to mask up to protect others.

Ableism is an insidious evil in society & healthcare. It convinces us to abandon each other for profit & convenience.

Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 7h

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Screenshot of text from the interview:

You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?

I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.

[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]

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Joan 🐈‍⬛ (but spoopy) @profwitch.bsky.social · 7h

“alt-left” give me a fucking breaaaaaaaaaak

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 9h

Cuomo just “both sides-ed” the indictment of AG Tish James. Disqualifying on its own, aside from everything else about him

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12h

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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🌒 Mx Mary Moon 🌘 @mxmarymoon.bsky.social · 9h

last chance to help me get back home for this.

🌒 Mx Mary Moon 🌘 @mxmarymoon.bsky.social · 1d

reposting with an updated total! I'm at $200/$850 to cover travel costs to see my grandmother laid to rest.

I could make this work for just myself with another $200~ (even if I'd love to have my entire family with me)

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Support Mx Mary Moon

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Joan 🐈‍⬛ (but spoopy) @profwitch.bsky.social · 7h

a woman is standing in a doorway with her mouth open and the words gasps in spanish .

Alt: a woman is standing in a doorway with her mouth open and the words gasps in spanish .

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 11h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Joan 🐈‍⬛ (but spoopy) @profwitch.bsky.social · 12h

“i deserve an a!”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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MossyPine 🍂🍄 Cozy Art @bymossypine.bsky.social · Sep 9

🍂 Is it spooky time yet?!

#cuteart #illustration

Digital illustration of a black cat in a big round pumpkin. The illustration has an fall themed border with plants, mushrooms and pumpkins

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 17h

thinking about the liberal politicians willing to try to compromise with fascists by abandoning minority groups they don't really like - i wish they understood that fascists will come for everyone eventually. even themselves. fascism unopposed is a ruined state with everyone dead

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Joan 🐈‍⬛ (but spoopy) @profwitch.bsky.social · 17h

glad to see you and your family seem to be safe. your work is so important and i’m grateful it’s available for us all. thank you for everything

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 17h

Please share for these six families 🙏🏾 They’re still losing martyrs due to the occupation’s ongoing violations of the ceasefire. They’re still at risk of starving to death, including a pregnant mom who needs every ounce of nutrition.

So we still stand by them. Won’t you?

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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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Joan 🐈‍⬛ (but spoopy) @profwitch.bsky.social · 20h

oooh, alright! thank you for sharing

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onion person @junlper.beer · 21h

we need to abolish this shit

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Joan 🐈‍⬛ (but spoopy) @profwitch.bsky.social · 20h

… i’m curious

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Joan 🐈‍⬛ (but spoopy) @profwitch.bsky.social · 1d

i'm just hearing the news - i can't believe she's gone. she was an absolute legend and icon. my heart breaks.

Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 1d

Goodnight screen goddess and style icon. 🙌
Diane Keaton - R.I.P.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1d

if you're not where you want to be as an artist or entertainer and didn't come from money or an industry family try to remember that it was never an even playing field to begin with and you're probably doing great considering

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1d

s/o to everyone from working class backgrounds in the arts and entertainment who clawed their way to where they are without the benefit of family wealth, career experience, or connections

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AzAnsel @azansel.bsky.social · 1d

One of the themes in the replies here is that "At least atheist aren't ruining the country like the Christians." And like, a significant part of the Trump movement comes from GamerGate, which had serious over lap with the mid 2010s capital A Atheism.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

Atheist proselytizers are the religious proselytizers I’m most likely to come into contact with and they’re just as annoying as all of the other ones I experience

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