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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 16h

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T.A. Blackstone 🔞 @ta-blackstone.bsky.social · 1d

Saying "despite ceasefire" is such an interesting way to frame this. They broke the ceasefire. Period.

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

israel has already broken the ceasefire

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🏳️‍⚧️ Kiara Pendragon ∍⧽⧼∊ Godslayer 🏳️‍🌈 @aapur.bsky.social · 1d

Who'd win:
- Violent state-funded insurrectionists with unrestricted access to the entire US Budget
- Some dudes in frog costumes

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

instead they get grandmas, and priests, and inflatable frogs, and ordinary decent people rising up and saying "this is vile, this is unamerican, these are secret police"

they get kristi noem in a staring contest with a guy in a chicken suit

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 1d

Well it's a fight you provoked and a fight you're getting unless you decide to leave us the fuck alone.

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 2d

Privileged ‘gender critical’ transphobes abusing their positions of power in National newspapers to propagandise their own personal brand of hate to attack trans people are a fight actual feminists could do without.

… But here we are! 🤷🏼‍♀️🙄😣

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Sci @scistarborne.bsky.social · 1d

AI cannot take your job. All AI can do is impersonate your job succcessfully to people who don't know what your job entails. Which are, unfortunatly, often your bosses.

AI is the endgame of feckless and incompetant middle-management.

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Sci @scistarborne.bsky.social · 1d

Ghislaine Maxwell's dad was Robert Maxwell. Robert fucking Maxwell.

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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 1d

RIP to Christopher Mills — an old-school bona fide indie comics creator who did it for the love of the medium, which is the only reason to do it in the first place. He was the kind of guy who makes artist alleys worth walking, and he'll be missed.

Christopher Mills @atomicpulp.bsky.social · 10d

I only wrote about 100 comics in my so-called career, but now that I'm dying, I'm grateful that I got to do even that. Comics are such a wonderful medium, and they've always meant so much to me.

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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 3d

Embrace Change- 2022

My art, digital. A comic page of a women shapeshifting into a werewolf

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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 2d

“Over the last 70 years, the #ECHR has repeatedly stepped in when domestic courts were unable to provide the protection we now take for granted and cherish,” says the UK’s outgoing judge at the European Court of Human Rights👇

🔗 www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/ecthr-m... via @lawsocietygazette.bsky.social

ECtHR 'more necessary and relevant' now, says outgoing UK judge

Leading silk says he 'hardly recognises' the good work of the ECHR from recent criticism of Strasbourg court.

www.lawgazette.co.uk

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Krinn DNZ @krinndnz.bsky.social · Jan 2

images that spring to mind unbidden, part 673: "they don't need to excel at leisure"

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 2d

This will automatically select your local MP and pre-draft an email for you after entering your name and address in just a few clicks and less than 30 seconds.

My local MP is thankfully one of those actively advocating for trans rights; if one can do it, they all can.

TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 2d

🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan

Image of a flashing red siren. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban This is an emergency. Tell your MP to say no to segregation. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 2d

Listen. And understand. That LLM is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until they run out of money.

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FurPlanet Productions @furplanet.com · 2d

Shared with us by our resident fennec.

Black sign with white text reading:
FUCK SOCIAL MEDIA.
MARRY BOOKS.
KILL AI.

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Stedilnik @stedilnik.bsky.social · 2d

A fun prank

(featuring Samantha and guest starring Daniel because it might be good for him feel something for once)

Step 1

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Maul 🔜 FWA @maul.bsky.social · 2d

Oh good, you're just in time. I'll be your sleep paralysis running partner for the evening

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Dan Larson @danlarson.bsky.social · 9d

I got the email notification about this from Spreadshirt last week and promptly deleted my account. If you have one, you should too.

Michael Dashow @mdashow.bsky.social · Aug 19

Warning to anyone who has their art on Spreadshirt.com: They now have a feature where anyone can remix your art and it's impossible to opt out unless you just leave the site altogether.

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/19/s...

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI

Spreadshirt is an online print-on-demand store. You can sell T-shirts and mugs and so on. My wife Arkady Rose is an artist as well as a musician, and had a pile of designs on Spreadshirt and Redbub…

pivot-to-ai.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

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Sci @scistarborne.bsky.social · 3d

In the UK "Care In The Community" is the modern equivalent of leaving the elderly and infirm on an iceflow.

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 3d

‘Doublethink*’ alive and well in the U.K. Government.

Given the U.K. Government’s statement to the United Nations on 10 October 2025:

www.gov.uk/government/s...

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 3d

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3d

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Joe Rosales @joeartguy.bsky.social · 3d

as a private company I’m sure they uh something something efficiency innovation something something

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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SmallerGod @jennysmallergod.bsky.social · 4d

Corporations make billions in profit so they can choke smaller businesses to death

Your furry artist shirt maker sells them so they can pay their rent

It's not morally questionable to buy a furry shirt from walmart, it's morally repugnant.

Nyil @nyil.bsky.social · 5d

The annoying thing about corporations trying to break into furry spaces is that like.. when corporations do this it's because they want to take control of the space so that they're the only ones who can sell things. They're corporations, they can afford to undercut small creators.

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