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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 5h

it is so batshit crazy that there aren't more prominent democratic socialists in elected positions. so so crazy

schmoo @samuelernest.com · 5h

"This is a question about self-reflection... is the thing you're reflecting on the most that you need to be on social media more? Was there any deeper lesson that you want—" Give this woman a Peabody

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Hongwei Bao (he/him) @queercomrades.bsky.social · 18h

If you are in Paris on 24-26 October, please don't miss Chinese queer artist Xiayadie's exhibition. His works depict rural and working class queer lives using the traditional artform of papercutting. They are simply stunning!
blindspotgallery.com/exhibition/a...

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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 13h

when u find out he's actually a bottom 🥰

schmoo @samuelernest.com · 13h

thanks, needed this 🤤

schmoo @samuelernest.com · 15h

Eva just cooed like a dove in her sleep

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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 1d

and it always sounded plausible to me!? Maybe not robots, but you know, automated dialing of some sort

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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 1d

I was told by someone who probably doesn't actually know that robots dial and then if you pick up, the robots pass it over to a human, and the pause is the gap between robot and human

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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 1d

Discover Our Spacious Pouch

schmoo @samuelernest.com · 1d

institutions are caving really quickly

schmoo @samuelernest.com · 1d

*to go viral

schmoo @samuelernest.com · 1d

nope nope nope, not trying to viral on this app

but read the story

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

– You felt that you couldn’t ‘afford’ to cry because you were so dehydrated.

– It was so hot, like 40 degrees. We begged the whole time: Can we have water? Can we have water? In the end, we screamed. The guards walked in front of the bars the whole time, laughing and holding up their water bottles. They threw the bottles with water in them into the trash cans in front of us.

At one point, around 60 people were put in a small cage outdoors, in the middle of the sun, according to several participants of the flotilla. Most of them did not have enough room to sit down.

– When people fainted, we banged on the cages and asked for a doctor. Then the guards came and said, ‘We’re going to gas you.’ It was standard for them to say that. They held up a gas cylinder and threatened to press it against us.

During the nights, guards regularly came by and shook the bars, shining flashlights, and several times a night they came in and forced everyone to stand up.

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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 1d

great deks

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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 2d

"I want to look him int he eye and talk to him about humanitarian aid." That did nothing. It bought him time for more genocide and you know that, and we know you know that.

schmoo @samuelernest.com · 2d

you're a shill for genocide and we all fucking see it man

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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 2d

There is no peace without justice, and we are far from seeing any justice for Palestine. Glad some of the killing has stopped (IDF is still shooting civilians), but how are they supposed to rebuild their lives from rubble?
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire, saying a group had approached its soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 3d

oof

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 3d

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 3d

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 3d

Happy birthday!!!! I've decided to build a small press for gay/queer literature and theology/spirituality called @homodoxy.com. It'll republish and preserve some older queer texts and publish new writing , too.

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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 3d

I just today learned that B*ri We*ss is a lesbian.

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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 3d

smoooosh!

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Homodoxy @homodoxy.com · 4d

Received our first 1k donation!!!! There are some named tiers for larger donations, and that's the Friends tier.

fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/homodoxy/gen...

Homodoxy

Books worth burning.

fundraising.fracturedatlas.org

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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 4d

jesus

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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 4d

and one of the presenters, an evangelical Latina pastor named Sandra Maria Van Opstal had already been protesting

abc7chicago.com/post/chicago...

ICE confirms 4 Chicago-area arrests as Trump administration's 'Midway Blitz' operation gets underway

Religious leaders from a diverse group of faith backgrounds stood with one voice on Daley Plaza to decry the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.

abc7chicago.com

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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 4d

wait—actually, I KNOW they're out there. I attended a conference for Evangelicals and Palestine in Chicago right when ICE started their raids there (I'm not one but I was raised one and keep up some on their stuff)...

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