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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 11h

I highly recommend treating yourself this Halloween by supporting a Canadian company doing humanitarian work and providing delicious, ethically sourced chocolate. Thanks @peacebychocolate.bsky.social !

(Not sponsored, I just love their chocolate and the work they’re doing.)

An autumn display of gourds, fall leaves, deer antlers, and candles framing Halloween goodies and other treats from Peace By Chocolate.

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 17h

My heart was not ready for this.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 18h

This line from Mamdani's father just really struck me. Great profile:

“I was an Indian in Uganda. I was a Muslim in India. And I was all of these things in New York City,” Mahmood Mamdani explained to his son. And “to be a minority is also to see the truth of the place amidst the promise of it.”

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 20h

It’s wild watching Gavin Newsom try to rebrand from “in bed with the enemy” while doing all the things one would expect from someone sympathetic to the shitheads destroying human rights and the planet. More wild still that so many people are buying it.

This man fully sucks.

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 20h

"“While I strongly support the author’s goal of establishing necessary safeguards for the safe use of AI by minors, (the bill) imposes such broad restrictions on the use of conversational AI tools that it may unintentionally lead to a total ban on the use of these products by minors,” Newsom said."

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 1d

That so many people cancelled their Disney subscriptions when Kimmel was censored is a start, but the lack of movement on Apple subscriptions following their protection of ICE agents and capitulation to Trump is incredibly sad.

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 1d

Cancel your Apple subscriptions. They're protecting Trump's gestapo and kissing his ring. If you want them to listen, you need to hit them in the profits.

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! Listen to some of Edna Manitowabi's storytelling today, you won't regret it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0QI...

Nanabush & Creation

YouTube video by Wabano Centre

www.youtube.com

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 1d

All this time I've apparently been spelling her name wrong lmao, my bad.

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 1d

Every cosmetic decision that Lara Trump makes has her looking more and more like Janice from the Muppets and I find that fascinating.

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Preacher from the Black Lagoon @revpoppop.bsky.social · 2d

“Why are they upset about the frog?”

Because the frog has power. As silly as it sounds. The frog is not just a good idea. It’s our greatest weapon.

And I’m going to explain why…

🧵

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IYKYK @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 2d

YESSSSSS

FUCK BLUESKY FOREVER.

FREE LINK!

Clinton Bowen @torrho.blacksky.team · 3d

Correct! This week we built a fallback mechanism to query slingshot, constellation, and the PDS directly.

For now it is limited "read only". Soon enough you'll be able to interact with Link on blacksky.community

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 2d

Ahhh good point. I’m glad I can still enjoy these movies without catching the woke mind virus.

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 2d

He is both talented and tiresome.

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 2d

So are are movies like Dunkirk and Inglorious Basterds ANTIFA propaganda now, orrrr...?

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 3d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Raghad. Raghad is 22 years old and was finishing her studies to be a nurse. She wanted to go into nursing because her mother had a stroke that made her lose movement in her arms and legs. They are now displaced with her 10 siblings.

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 3d

Oh my GOD. 🤢

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 3d

I would say "I can't believe Laura Loomer hates Muslim people more than she loves Trump" but that'd be a lie, I absolutely can believe it, it's incredibly predictable, she's a bingo card of bigotry.

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for seeing our community and highlighting the incredible legacy of our matriarchs. ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 3d

Since Kid Rock is trending, let's all revisit these fun lyrics he included in his Osmosis Jones cameo:

"Young ladies, young ladies
I like 'em underage, see
Some say that's statutory (But I say it's mandatory)"

Makes sense that he's such a Trump guy. Release the Epstein files.

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 4d

YUP 🙃

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 4d

The Nobel Peace Prize was already a joke, but the fact that it's been awarded to María Corina Machado--a neoliberal Trump-supporting nepo baby set on impoverishing Venezuela through privatization--says pretty much all there is to say on the matter.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 4d

She's a U.S. sponsored opposition candidate and the daughter of a steel oligarch. Machado champions the privatization of Venezuela's oil, power, and steel industries.

Connie Schultz @connieschultz.bsky.social · 4d

New York Times:

“Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela & for her struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · 4d

Maysara's grandfather needs daily medical support and is in need of help today, please send the campaign link directly to potential supporters if you're not able to donate personally. It really helps out if you can do that. ❤️

Swolesome 🍉 @swolesome.bsky.social · Sep 14

I've set up a campaign for the Al-Ashal family that is specific to their travel expenses. With everyone's help, they've been able to relocate to southern Gaza, but they will need funds to evacuate. Please give if you can, anything helps!

chuffed.org/project/1493...

Help Maysara and his family evacuate Gaza

Hi everyone, my name is Finn and I'm fundraising from Canada to help my friend Maysara and his family leave Gaza. For nearly two years now they have been subjected to constant bombardment and impossib...

chuffed.org

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Zappit @zappit.bsky.social · 5d

Link requested this be boosted so we can help Dr. Divya raise money for Palestinian families in need.

It is also a good day to reinstate Link’s account.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 4d

I love that Portland’s solution to being invaded was simply “Be weirder.”

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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