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TaLynn Kel - Aggressively fat and pro-Black!

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TaLynn Kel - Aggressively fat and pro-Black! @talynnkel.bsky.social · Mar 23

“Living in the united states is a mindfuck. Lies are the currency here.

From birth, you are misled, and misinformed, manipulated and maladjusted until violence becomes your status quo.

Image of text with a red and white border. Text reads "“Living in the united states is a mindfuck. Lies are the currency here.

From birth, you are misled, and misinformed, manipulated and maladjusted until violence becomes your status quo.

Participating in bullying and manipulation become your norm, because it’s better to inflict violence than endure violence.

Cruel impulses are rewarded, provided they are never aimed at those with more power than you – unless you can overwhelmingly win.

You learn to be sneaky and casually dishonest because truth is punished.

You learn that the appearance of conformity is survival and you join the herd of those who gain adult approval by reinforcing the violent norms that you learned to navigate.

Your instincts are undermined and contradicted until wrong feels right.
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From the essay “Predatory Prey – The Fate Of Western ‘Civilization’” by TaLynn Kel

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 23h

As soon as they make the agreement, they break it.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 23h

Politicians who meet fascists half way, are just fascists.

Newsom is all about publicity & nothing about integrity.

It’s been depressing watching American ppl hero-worship a power crazed sell-out. It’s not just Kimberly Guilfoyle & cosmetic surgery he has in common with the Trumps. READ this:

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. Yesterday, the press gave Gavin Newsom favorable coverage for signing pro-LGBTQ+ bills.

Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats.

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Gavin Newsom Vetoes Important HRT Stockpiling Bill For Trans Californians, Signs Other Pro-LGBTQ+ Bills

The bill would have allowed transgender people to maintain a safe supply of medication in the era of government crackdowns on care.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Tiricohairline @trejames.bsky.social · 1d

here's why

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

“Patrek Chase, kidney transplant program director at Parkland Health in Dallas, claimed that patients at his hospital – which generally serves a poorer population – were passed over for a healthy organ in favor of patients at UT Southwestern Medical Center, which generally helps the affluent.”

Whistleblower claims Dallas hospitals kept kidneys from poorer patients

Kidneys that were deemed unsuitable for patients at Parkland hospital were allegedly given to others at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

www.texasstandard.org

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Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 6d

So much tear gas that people who aren't even protesting are getting sick when they leave their homes to run errands: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

www.motherjones.com

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TaLynn Kel - Aggressively fat and pro-Black! @talynnkel.bsky.social · 1d

This was the money shot. Best photo of the whole batch, in my opinion.

Photo of TaLynn Kel, a fat Black woman. She has orange curly hair and a nose ring. She is wearing orange and gold eyeshadow and black lipstick with an orange and gold multichrome effect. She is shown from the chest up and is not wearing a shirt.

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Annalise Ophelian @dr-ophelian.bsky.social · 1d

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The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…

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TaLynn Kel - Aggressively fat and pro-Black! @talynnkel.bsky.social · 8d

I'm just rambling and becoming more and more aware that someone might read this.

I'm not sure if that's a good thing. I'm not sure it needs to be a good thing.

The uncertainty of it all is anxiety inducing.

Meh.

TaLynn Kel - Aggressively fat and pro-Black! @talynnkel.bsky.social · 8d

I know a lot of this is the feeling of being in limbo, waiting for the next terrible thing to happen and wondering if that's the thing that will finally break me.

I'm tired of fighting, but I'm also not ready to stop. It's a rough place to exist.

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TaLynn Kel - Aggressively fat and pro-Black! @talynnkel.bsky.social · 8d

And I know that talking about it on social media isn't the way to manage it. Sometimes, I just want to get it out so that I don't feel like I'm letting it fester in me.

Sometimes, just sharing it aloud eases the burden.

But that's not an answer. It's not a solution.

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TaLynn Kel - Aggressively fat and pro-Black! @talynnkel.bsky.social · 8d

I got a lot of despair. Sometimes, it grips me so hard that I feel like I'm suffocating in it. Other times, I just detach from my feelings enough to convince others that I'm okay.

I'm not okay and haven't been for a while.

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TaLynn Kel - Aggressively fat and pro-Black! @talynnkel.bsky.social · 13d

I won't, but you look great.

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TaLynn Kel - Aggressively fat and pro-Black! @talynnkel.bsky.social · 14d

Like american gladiators. Heh

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14d

This story has some absolutely brutal quotes and lines.

Mr. Hegseth’s speech mirrored his leadership style over his first eight months in office, during which he has focused less on meeting with his foreign counterparts around the world and more on doing pull-ups and early morning runs with troops that are posted on the Pentagon’s social media feed.

“He views the world from the point of view of a not terribly successful major in the National Guard,” said Eliot Cohen, a military historian who served in the State Department under President George W. Bush. “For him it’s push-ups, pull-ups and pugil sticks. It’s aggressiveness.”

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18d

There is no measured way to say what I am about to say.

If the Supreme Court agrees with the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship, we must end this current Supreme Court.

I do not say this lightly.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 18d

And kindness is not weakness.

If you see fashy people attacking Black people, or immigrants, or trans folk, it's not kindness to say, "We should all get along!"🤡

That's weakness.

It's kindness to put yourself between the people with less power than yourself, and the people that want to hurt them.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 18d

Periodic reminder: Hate takes effort to maintain.

If it weren't for constant effort by fashy people to lie about Black folk, Brown folk, women, immigrants, trans folk, etc, that most people would choose *not* to support fashy people.

Fascism requires an ongoing cost. Kindness is free!

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TaLynn Kel - Aggressively fat and pro-Black! @talynnkel.bsky.social · 20d

And then there are the ones who seek to expand it, especially when they aren’t directly affected by it.

TaLynn Kel - Aggressively fat and pro-Black! @talynnkel.bsky.social · 20d

The thing I find most interesting is how no matter how wrong, cruel, or destructive an actions is, if someone can see an individual benefit in it, many will not just allow it, but work to facilitate it rather than try to stop it.

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TaLynn Kel - Aggressively fat and pro-Black! @talynnkel.bsky.social · 20d

When you have a society built on extracting intellectual and physical labor from its people while routinely and ritualistically erasing their identities and destroying their communities, it is doomed.

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TaLynn Kel - Aggressively fat and pro-Black! @talynnkel.bsky.social · 21d

LL is funny as hell. He just be saying anything.

When Sean on Hot Ones asked him what pink cookies in a plastic bag meant and he just laughed for a full 10 seconds and said he didn't know cuz he was high...

I love him. He's a complete weirdo.

Pointing Man @nywiseass.bsky.social · 21d

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TaLynn Kel - Aggressively fat and pro-Black! @talynnkel.bsky.social · 21d

That's how you know the team was white as hell.

Raphael Phaasiq @rize4eva.bsky.social · 21d

Don lemon said they ran Kamala Harris campaign like she was a white woman trying to appeal to black people

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TaLynn Kel - Aggressively fat and pro-Black! @talynnkel.bsky.social · 21d

Today I learned how hard it is to blow out a candle when wearing a mask.

TaLynn Kel - Aggressively fat and pro-Black! @talynnkel.bsky.social · 21d

This is complete bullshit. I need to know which landlords are trying this nonsense.

Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 22d

An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:

TaLynn Kel - Aggressively fat and pro-Black! @talynnkel.bsky.social · 22d

This is some shit I will never learn is possible.

33oz Mango Butter 🥭🧈 @shonnasaidso.blacksky.app · 22d

I turned my neck a little and I heard Bryson Tiller “Don’t!”

TaLynn Kel - Aggressively fat and pro-Black! @talynnkel.bsky.social · 22d

Amusing in these horrible times where I'm contemplating whether to die of illness or hate crime.

*giggles distressingly*

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 23d

"Are ghost candles a fire hazard?"

Is that a real candle that looks like a ghost or a candle in another plane of existence that looks like a ghost and was lit by a ghost or did the ghost light a real candle in our plane of existence and the appearance of the candle is irrelevant. Help us help you.