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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 1d

Art at its best: powerful reflection of reality at the exact right angle.

Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine that

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Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp · 1d

Dutch people abroad: if they sent you one if these, now is a good time to send it back.

(Yesyes, I will put stamps on it, just need to go buy some.)

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Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp · 1d

Turns out that if a mentally ill moron is elected President, he picks a cabinet full of other morons and Congress and the Supreme Court merely cheer them on, ...

... bad things happen.

I know. Weird huh?

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp · 1d

"Just like we did with cartels, we’re going to take the same approach…with Antifa."

Bondi explains how they're going to deal with ANTIFA - defined as those who meaningfully oppose them.

So far, every step of the way, they've said what they were going to do.

FFS, believe them!

'My gosh!' Pam Bondi's flippant Antifa threat staggers onlookers

US Attorney General Pam Bondi generated alarm on Wednesday when she said the Trump administration is going to take the “same approach” to Antifa as it has to drug cartels—as the military bombs boats i...

www.rawstory.com

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Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp · 2d

www.nobelpeaceprize.org/nobel-commit...

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Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp · 2d

Norway appears genuinely worried how the authoritarian American President will take it if he doesn't get the Nobel Peace Prize.

Which, no matter which way you slice it, is a profoundly crazy sentence to write.

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Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp · 2d

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 2d

👀A Rutgers professor who teaches an anti-fascism class was blocked from leaving the US hours > Trump’s “Antifa” roundtable w/ Jack Posobiec who has called Bray a “domestic terrorist professor.” TPUSA at Rutgers has called him an “antifa member,” a claim he denies. He’s received death threats. 1/

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp · 3d

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp · 3d

Planning to leave the US, but are sort of waiting for things to get just a little worse? Here's your reminder that you can also be too late.

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 4d

Let’s check in on the warzone in Portland.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 3d

“Because of the tremendous wealth of key figures…major corporations have enabled, collaborated with, and turned a blind eye to efforts to suppress, torture, falsely imprison, terrorise and murder dissenters … around the world.” Twitter [gave] the Saudi government a reach well beyond its borders.

Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/09/twitter-saudi-arabia-deep-ties-elon-musk-prince-mohammed?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia

The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime

www.theguardian.com

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Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp · 3d

For many people, dealing with the fascist takeover, so far, has just meant picking a day to switch from "Jesus you're all paranoid" to "Well, autocrats are gonna autocrat, what's the news?"

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Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp · 4d

Just go about your totally normal day. There is nothing to worry about. Your government is on it and the ANTIFA insurrection has been as good as neutralized.

Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders as troops prepare for Chicago deployment

Neither Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson nor Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has been accused of criminal wrongdoing, though both have emerged as prominent opponents of Trump's immigration crackdown and de...

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Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp · 5d

Soon, somewhere, protesters and local police will be fighting these nazi thugs side by side.

Bien étonnés de se trouver ensemble.

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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 5d

WTF

carrion🐛 @carrion.bsky.social · 6d

the wise admins of bluesky have decided that creating a moderation list of AI slop posters is a no no

Hi there,
Your Bluesky account
(@carrion.bsky.social) has created a list called "Al Slop Posters" that may violate our Community Guidelines. We've temporarily hidden this list from other users because it contains one or more of these issues.
- Harmful language such as insults or slurs
- Unverified claims
- Appears intended to shame or abuse users

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Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp · 5d

People filming ICE-raids: you are all trying to get up-close, and it's necessary and heroic that some people do that. But often what's missing is the static overview shot, zoomed out to show the whole street, preferably from above. Just hold still and keep filming until it's really all over.

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Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp · 5d

My guess is (wanna)being an influencer correlates with a host of mental illnesses.

A) Think of who would want a life like that.

B) People obsessively watch other people in extreme mental states (from a safe distance)

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Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp · 6d

We can't fight for any ideal or against any aggressor if we are divided and openly for sale.

Either we fight Big Tech dependencies, social media power concentration and money in politics more generally, or we go down.

(My money is on going down, but maybe that's just the kind of day I'm having.)

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Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp · 6d

It's becoming an increasingly lonely feeling to live in a liberal democracy with more or less intact institutions.

I close my eyes when I hear about the EU as a counterweight to Russia, China and the US. But then I open them again and I see a patchwork of democracies in varying states of decay.

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Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp · 6d

In France, yet another Prime Minister resigned, pointing to continuing and worrisome political instability.

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigns after less than a month

He criticised the "partisan appetites" of political factions, who he said had refused to compromise.

www.bbc.com

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Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp · 6d

Just in the past day:

The Czech Republic fell to a right-wing populist billionaire

Czech Republic: Billionaire populist Andrej Babis' party wins parliamentary election

However, his ANO party falls short of an overall majority in preliminary results.

www.bbc.com

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Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp · 6d

Fortunately Bert Hubert has written many eloquent blog posts about exactly this so I don't have to.

'The cloud' is not just servers. 'Going to the cloud' could also mean locking into a forever sub-contractor - Bert Hubert's writings

The very brief version: “going to the cloud” can mean renting services/servers that you could get from anywhere. There’s little lock-in. The same four words “going to the cloud” might also mean lockin...

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Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp · 6d

(No, your IT strategy cannot be to hope that Microsoft and Google end up on the good side once the US Civil War breaks out. No, today is not too early to stop depending on US Big Tech. Yes, migration will suck. You will either get over it quickly, or you will be replaced.)

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Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp · 6d

Or maybe we'll fight some remnant of America, shoulder-to-shoulder with some other remnant of it. Either way, fascism, once at this stage, does not let go of power by itself.

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