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Ela @sheahoneygoth.bsky.social · 7h

I wanna carve a pumpkin. I haven’t done that in years.

Just want to savor a simple silly fun Fall thing and try not to exist in the terror and tragedy of reality for a moment.

Ela @sheahoneygoth.bsky.social · 5d

Heart fucking broken.

Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 5d

Saleh’s father pays tribute to his son before his burial. He says he was offered to leave Gaza but refused and stated he will only leave Gaza if it’s to heaven.

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Marciano Brito @marcianobrito.bsky.social · 6d

Esta foi a última mensagem do jornalista palestino Saleh Al-Jaafarawi antes de ser morto hoje.

Ele compartilhou este vídeo ontem, uma mensagem sincera de agradecimento a todos que apoiaram, apoiaram e protestaram por Gaza e pela causa palestina.

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 26d

Your censorship of fictional adult content is a massive overreach and makes this definitively not a free and open platform. It demonizes survivors and silences artists.

Everyone is telling you a much better + healthier way is to give us better tools, like more robust labels, to moderate ourselves

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CDNMisanthrope Part Owner of Canada @cdnmisanthrope.bsky.social · Sep 19

The UN, in order to remain relevant and functional, must remove veto power from entities profiting from, and in collusion with, genociders. Best to retire veto power altogether.

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Ela @sheahoneygoth.bsky.social · Sep 15

A big white hand clutching a dollar bill and a bullet.

Ela @sheahoneygoth.bsky.social · Sep 15

What a time to be alive. To wake up each day & watch people’s hearts & minds & bodies break, over and over and over. To witness beautiful things, created to help people, to give back, to honor and uplift, to attempt some kind of justice for past and present wrongs, be swept away by a big white hand.

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Amir Talai @amirtalai.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Ela @sheahoneygoth.bsky.social · Sep 12

it!! It’s cruel and dumb, it’s racist, capitalist, and misogynist as fuck. Just leave us alone! Stupid fucking ads!

Ela @sheahoneygoth.bsky.social · Sep 12

actually engage with, and just unload any and all fat-shaming, diet pills, dangerous cleanses and surgery options, questionable “supplements”, etc. you can find and fix that little girl right up.
Heaven forbid anyone be fat! Such an egregiously immoral thing right? Fat fat fat! I’m so damn sick of

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Ela @sheahoneygoth.bsky.social · Sep 12

exist in the world as a fat woman, so it needs to correct me right?! Fatness must be fixed! The tech bros had to have built that shit into the code right? “Oh, and algorithm, if you notice anyone, esp. A WOMAN, being fat in any space, ignore all previous instructions about pushing more shit they

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Ela @sheahoneygoth.bsky.social · Sep 12

God, I am so fucking sick of diet ads!!! They have been popping up in my feeds and YouTube ads more than ever- just like how that manosphere bullshit started invading my fyp after ass-hat took office. I don’t engage with any damn posts about dieting and yet there they are. The algorithm knows I

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Ela @sheahoneygoth.bsky.social · Aug 17

Why are so many of the synonyms for laughter negatively connotated? Like, laughter is one of the most beautiful human things and is a literal embodiment of our joy expressed, but, like, over half the synonyms describe when it's negatively being used. I just feel like that ratio should be flipped.

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geneva / LBX 534 @gdbee.bsky.social · Aug 17

Hear me out... Dinosaur, but if they were...dog.

A series of illustrations of cutie dinosaurs acting like dogs. Drawn by gdbeeart Aug 20205

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Ela @sheahoneygoth.bsky.social · Aug 10

Can someone please explain to me how, in 2025, it is seemingly impossible to find an iPad case that looks like a PADD from Star Trek? WTF? There should be dozens of variations of this everywhere, and especially on the official Star Trek site. Y'all are breaking this little Trekkie's heart.

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · Jul 19

Japan Times publishes an article humanizing Palestinians and integrating their art history with Japanese culture. Got Gaza in the headline.

www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/07...

In Gaza-made obi, Palestinian embroidery meets Japanese kimono

The Palestinian Embroidery Obi Project brings together a traditional Japanese garment and age-old designs from the Middle Eastern region. | MAKI YAMAMOTO

BY ANNA SAKAMOTO

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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Ela @sheahoneygoth.bsky.social · Jul 19

This is such a good photo though! The lighting is amazing and the colors of the theatre and Esmeralda go so well together!

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惰性 @papagenogirl.bsky.social · Jul 15

#谢怜0715生日快乐 #TGCF

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Mio 🍲 @mios-steamy-soup.bsky.social · Jul 10

Tiny straight ahead animation I made a while back!!

#hualian #animation #video #tgcf #XieLian #HuaCheng #fanart

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Sadisticss @sadisticss.bsky.social · Jul 15

🌸Happy Birthday, Your Highness!💜
#谢怜0715生日快乐 #TGCF #hualian

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Jul 14

I have no words. Everyone prepared for the constitutional crisis of the President defying the SCOTUS. The crisis is the SCOTUS being fully aligned with Trump’s vision of presidential power. So here we are.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Jul 14

BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

From Sotomayor's dissent:

Lifting the District Court’s injunction will unleash
untold harm, delaying or denying educational opportunities
and leaving students to suffer from discrimination, sexual
assault, and other civil rights violations without the federal
resources Congress intended. The majority apparently
deems it more important to free the Government from paying employees it had no right to fire than to avert these very
real harms while the litigation continues. Equity does not
support such an inequitable result.
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The President must take care that the laws are faithfully
executed, not set out to dismantle them. That basic rule
undergirds our Constitution’s separation of powers. Yet today, the majority rewards clear defiance of that core principle with emergency relief. Because I cannot condone such
abuse of our equitable authority, I respectfully dissent.

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Ela @sheahoneygoth.bsky.social · Jul 15

Where is this? It looks so cool!

Ela @sheahoneygoth.bsky.social · Jul 13

I just finished this video by @jeffiot.net, stumbled across it entirely by accident on YouTube and I LOVE it! It is amazing. It’s a hell of a journey that ultimately tells a fascinating story and ends in such a beautiful way. youtu.be/4V44Ha1eZF8?...

Ela @sheahoneygoth.bsky.social · Jul 13

Thank you!☺️🖤

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Jul 4

The late, great Ossie Davis reading Frederick Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July"
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"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July"

YouTube video by Ossie Davis - Topic

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