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Countx Chocula 🦇👻

@speedofhuman.bsky.social

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Weirdo nature nerd, 🪨hound, 👻 storyteller, #trans 🏳️‍⚧️⚧️, #genderqueer, #AuDHD #pwME #WUFO Liminal Earth Ambassador

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Countx Chocula 🦇👻 @speedofhuman.bsky.social · Mar 14

I finally wrote up a field report zine about some of my wild experiences in Boyer Chute, which I alluded to a few weeks back in #WUFO

📖 You can check out "Fairy-Led at Boyer Chute" here (no need for an account - click "continue as guest"): new.express.adobe.com/publishedV2/...

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 8h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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OPB @opb.org · 6h

It’s been two years since Hermiston officials revealed Eastern Oregon’s largest city had “forever chemicals” in its water supply. It may be years more before Hermiston residents get more information about the discovery.

After finding forever chemicals in its drinking water, this Eastern Oregon city stopped testing for them

PFAS turning up in Oregon cities remain unregulated by federal clean water laws.

www.opb.org

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Yes, you should be surprised and horrified by secret federal police running around our city kidnapping immigrants, crashing cars, launching chemical weapons and shooting and killing people. This is a thing you should be *perpetually* shocked by. We lose when we become numb to it.

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Luka Grafera @grafera.zone · 6h

Mass Defense Hotline can help with support and advocacy when you call from jail in Portland— but only if you have the number handy! Here's a little reminder to write it somewhere discreet on your skin whenever you're risking arrest. Download and distribute ↓

🔗 grafera.zone/archive/illu...

Mass Defense Hotline Card

grafera.zone

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 9h

Anna's Hummingbird, for @aro-frog.bsky.social - thanks for your #Waymakers donation! I love these dramatic little guys haha, always so full of fight. 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

Illustration of a male Anna's Hummingbird, wings spread and beating fast as he flies straight toward the viewer. He has a shiny magenta head and a dull gray-green body, and tiny tiny little black feet. The background is dark with implied vegetation.

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 10h

If you're thinking about RSVPing to No Kings to help with the crowd counts...don't. Do this instead

The Xylom @thexylom.com · 1d

Attending a "No Kings" protest Saturday? The Xylom's @alexip718.com and Strength in Numbers' @gelliottmorris.com are joining forces to conduct a nationwide, unofficial, crowdsourced attendance estimate.

We need your help to be our eyes and ears across 2,100+ locations and on the Internet.

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Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 1d

Nunavut, the only Indigenous led province, is starving.

because of the Canadian governments neglect.

Please buy a copy or donate to these organizations to help fight hunger in the far North.
💸💕

🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 1d

Please read this to understand how dire the situation is in Nunavut: www.aptnnews.ca/featured/foo...

I made print copies of my book a fundraiser to raise awareness of food sovereignty/security issues in the North, but the PDF is free if you want to download + donate directly to QCFC + other orgs.

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 15h

FYI for BC residents, if you want a COVID booster/flu shot, I was able to search in my emails for a previous "Book your next vaccine appointment" from a previous year and click on the link and it just let me schedule my covid vaccine.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h

People experiencing miscarriages in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves.

We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position 👇

(Published Dec. 2024)

If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life

Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...

www.propublica.org

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Erika Rier @erikarier.bsky.social · 5h

Friends, I installed my show today and it’s definitely the best thing I’ve ever pulled off so if you’re in Portland, Oregon please swing by the purple door gallery Friday to see what I have done.

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Countx Chocula 🦇👻 @speedofhuman.bsky.social · 4h

@liminalgarrett.bsky.social this looks cool!

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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 21h

SPINE has been released on itch! You can download your PDF or a printable booklet today to start playing!

I'm keeping it FREE through the end of October.

backwards-tabletop.itch.io/spine

Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 14d

SPINE is a solo tabletop RPG that looks like a book. It is your anchor to the fictional world, a prop, and a work of art — a keepsake — that you co-create, all in one.

In SPINE, you quite literally embody a researcher who is reading and marking up the physical book in front of you.

Embody the researcher who is reading and marking up the physical book in front of you.

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 8h

I just want to add that for people on immunosuppressants, catching covid (or many other things) means they're often directed to stop taking their medication so they can fight off the virus. This risks a relapse of their condition and introduces a host of complications in addition to the covid ones.

The Real McCoy @rippermd41.bsky.social · 16h

To you, getting covid may be no big deal.

But thanks to a failure in public health you have no idea who or what you’re risking.

Repeat covid infections are really bad for those with Long Covid.

Did you know that Black, Latino and Native American communities are at highest risk for Long Covid?

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 5h

Sometimes I get arrested or tear gassed in pursuit of the story that I write with my own two human hands, using my own human brain!

Support shit created by people who actually have a soul living within them! fuck AI, throw five bucks at your favorite instagram photographer instead

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 6h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 6h

LA County declares a state of emergency as a direct result of the federal government’s raids…

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 7h

In a similar vein to @guante.info's thread that I just shared 👇🏻

Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · Jun 24

Just saw this video from @monicatrinidad.bsky.social

Super inspiring and encouraging, with lots of pieces of advice, both big and small, from Monica and others

(Monica created the cover art for "We Do This 'Til We Free Us")

Highly recommend giving it a watch

youtu.be/jwBmLCaHKUw?...

How to make art for social change

YouTube video by Monica Trinidad

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Jon Green @modestholdings.com · 12h

I will refer to this report when Republicans demand i walk back my statement their Party is a pox on the polity and must be sent into the dustbin of history.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 13h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 10h

The E.P.A. canceled a $20 million flood protection grant to Alaska months before a remote village was inundated.

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Countx Chocula 🦇👻 @speedofhuman.bsky.social · 6h

Dang it, tell whoever it is they have exceptional tastes and we should be friends. (Obvs you have exceptional taste too 😂)

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 7h

Glad to see the "Chicago rat hole" (rodent-body imprint) of January 2024 Internet fame was studied more, but just to add my $0.02: Many folks missed the tracks leading away from the body imprint, meaning the squirrel (not rat) fell & splatted in wet concrete, but then walked it off. 🧪🐿️🐾

Photo showing the outline of small rodent body as a negative (concave) impression in sidewalk concrete, with left two limbs clearly defined but missing the upper right limb (arm) and only part of the right rear limb (leg); a thin tail is implied by a pointed imprint behind the main body imprint. The photo is labeled with "Direction of rodent movement" and a red arrow pointing to the upper right of the photo, and a red circle is around a set of rodent tracks in the upper right near the body imprint, labeled as "Rodent tracks."

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 7h

This is not the first time

Eyad El-Halaq was also a Palestinian man with Autism, and he was killed by the IDF. The judges let him free

This is very personal to me, I was diagnosed on the spectrum myself when I was 2, and seeing this just makes me sad and mad, where’s humanity?

RileyTChiweeieT14381 @rileytchiweenie2.bsky.social · 17h

This autistic Palestinian boy, Omar Yahya Al-Karnawi, was released 10/13/2025 to Gaza from Israeli prison after long months in detention without any charge. 1000s sit in jail with no charge for months, years including Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya.

#FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya

www.instagram.com/reel/DPwaokX...

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 7h

A legend who fully understands the struggle

STATEMENT OF LEONARD PELTIER
Greetings Comrades, Brothers & Sisters,
I send to you and the Palestinian people my strongest solidarity during this critical period in the struggle of the P.L.O. and Lebanese people against the forces of U.S. and Israeli aggression!
Myself, members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), Leonard Peltier Defense Cormittee and its support groups stand in solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people for their traditional land.
We understand your struggle based on our continuing war against the
U.S. goverment and their attempts to annhilate us as a PEOPLE, and to steal what remains of our traditional land as shown by their action at Wounded Knee, Big Mountain and most recently at Lame Deer on the Northern Cheyenne nation.
The Israeli troops, in carrying out their genocidal campaign, are acting today as the 7th Calvary acted in the past and continues to act in Indian Country.
THEY are the war criminals who will be tried for their butchery of the Lebanese and Palestinian people in Lebanon! If I were free today I would take our RED warriors to fight side by side with the freedom fighters of the P.L.O. to smash the imperialist forces of the U.S. and Israel. I know that the forces of liberation must and shall come together to fight as a united front in the unity of the four colors. We as RED warriors call upon the YELLOW, BLACK AND WHITE freedom fighters to stand united with the P.L.O. in uncompromising solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese people's struggle against the zionist forces of Israel.
I send my love and blood as a prisoner of war within the belly of the beast to those who continue the struggle.
VICTORY TO THE PALESTINIAN AND LEBANESE FREEDOM FIGHTERS!
VICTORY TO THE P.L.O.!
Leonard Peltier, P.O.W.

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 8h

“This bullshit has to stop” is a quote for the ages.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Countx Chocula 🦇👻 @speedofhuman.bsky.social · 6h

This book is great

Ⓐ Anarchist Federation News 🏴 @anarchistfederation.net · 7h

David Graeber and David Wengrow – The Dawn of Everything