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elliott junkyard 🍉 @transarchivist.bsky.social · 9h

sorry, donny. you're going to the bad place. 👎 #art

a drawing of the firey flames of hell over a photo of donald trump making a stupid face, over the flames is hand drawn text that says "you're not getting into heaven" in all caps, surrounded by four arrows pointing down

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elliott junkyard 🍉 @transarchivist.bsky.social · 7h

🎵 ancient humans were so fucking cool 🎵

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Rachel W. Martin @rwmartin.bsky.social · 8h

Brassica oleracea has entered the chat.

Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 8h

so no one was going to tell me that mountain lions and cougars are the same animal? as are pumas? and panthers?????????

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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AK Press @akpress.org · 10h

This week’s Distro Highlight:
We Are Still Here: An Anthology of Resilience, Grief, and Unshattered Hope from Gaza’s University Students edited by Zahid Pranjol & Jacob Norris

We Are Still Here is an anthology of these voices—raw, unfiltered, and courageous.

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elliott junkyard 🍉 @transarchivist.bsky.social · 9h

sorry, donny. you're going to the bad place. 👎 #art

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 7d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 10h

The thing about police is that they don't seem to understand that literally everyone else hates their guts. No one is pretending you're heros anymore. It's well known what shitty little cowards every single one of you is

David Noll @david.noll.org · 21d

In response to California passing a law limiting law enforcement officers' ability to conceal their identities, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California contends that police are not subject to democratic control.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Brian R. Marvel, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California, which represents over 87,000 public safety officers, said he was outraged by the passage of the law.

He said in a statement that he believed that California did not have the authority to regulate federal agents, so it would ultimately apply only to local law enforcement officers, which he called a “troubling betrayal that California’s local law enforcement community will not soon forget.” He said that limiting face coverings and opening officers up to prosecution would most likely hurt recruitment and drive officers from the state.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 14h

No they have completely shit the bed, folk that have been here since the invite days are leaving because of their bigoted bullshit. They hatehateHATE the core community that emerged here and I'm genuinely starting to believe they'd rather the entire thing fail than queers & minorities run the place

CautionWIP - FREE LINK - (in specially marked boxes) 👍 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ 🇨🇦 @noncompliant.bsky.social · 14h

Seriously. Is this place a scam, a shitshow, or a complete waste of time? Happy to read any feedback that doesn’t suggest the Bluesky management team haven’t shit the bed on this entire thing.

Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 2d

Free link

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16h

I’m horrified to hear that two people were kidnapped by ICE in Evanston this morning.

There’s a protest at Home Depot shortly. We’ll be delivering water and supplies to protesters — I hope you’ll join us in standing with our community.

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elliott junkyard 🍉 @transarchivist.bsky.social · 15h

I'm working my way through the first season and some of the episodes are bangers and then you get things like Mulder responding to someone asking if he's a cop with "No, I'm FBI." So its a real mixed bag so far!

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elliott junkyard 🍉 @transarchivist.bsky.social · 15h

how long have i been saying this is gonna be the next major class action suit?

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 16h

Americans gambled $150 Billion on online Sportbooks last year. Far too many almost lost everything.

For some young men, sports betting is a near-fatal gamble.

There's Now a Casino in Everyone's Pocket. For Some Young Men, It's a Near-Fatal Gamble

bit.ly

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elliott junkyard 🍉 @transarchivist.bsky.social · 15h

Gavin Newsom is a transphobic piece of shit who takes joy in harming the unhoused!

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 2d

Gavin Newsom continues to be a disappointment to trans Californians. TWIBS brought to you by @alyssaur.bsky.social

TWIBS: Governor Newsom May Be a Threat to Trans Americans — Assigned

Gavin Newsom has spent a lot of time declaring himself the greatest hero of the queer community to ever live, but his words and actions rarely seem to align these days.

www.assignedmedia.org

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elliott junkyard 🍉 @transarchivist.bsky.social · 15h

So glad you're cancer free!! 🎉

elliott junkyard 🍉 @transarchivist.bsky.social · 15h

I used to watch Rick Steves on PBS with my mom and he instilled a desire to see the world in me at a young age! This guy is a national treasure!

Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 3d

Thread:

A year ago yesterday was a very happy day for me. I had lost my prostate. It was good riddance, as it was riddled with cancer. I’m now cancer-free — and thankful for the tax-funded technology that saved my life.

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elliott junkyard 🍉 @transarchivist.bsky.social · 16h

go see my friend Terry!! @docmidnight.bsky.social has has rad comic shop right off the loyola stop and he'll talk to you about cool comics and other nerd shit!

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elliott junkyard 🍉 @transarchivist.bsky.social · 18h

i wish the angles would cut him when he tries to think

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

Hi hello did you know that Elon Musk's third Neuralink patient (previously nonverbal) is "getting help from Grok" to communicate

and I hope -- I REALLY HOPE -- he's not stuck in his own brain listening as a robot talks for him without his input because this, to me, would be worse than death

This patient’s Neuralink brain implant gets a boost from generative AI

A patient who types with his brain thanks to a Neuralink implant is using AI chatbots to speed things up.

www.technologyreview.com

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🌑Bₗᵤₑbₑᵣᵣy ₘ 🌑 @bluemudd24.bsky.social · 1d

This administration is leading this country into fascism, and Democrats are activley helping them

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 1d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 1d

cartoon with four panels showing a person with glasses acting out each recommendation

LITTLE THINGS YOU CAN DO TO SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT

1. BIKE TO WORK

2. TRY MEATLESS MONDAYS

3. GUILLOTINE THE CORRUPT CORPORATE CLASS THAT IS POISONING THE PLANET FOR PROFIT

4. RECYCLE

@ILEX_OPACA

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elliott junkyard 🍉 @transarchivist.bsky.social · 1d

in my favorite season of american horror story the couple also learns this lesson

Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yeah I think I read about this being a possibility in DUH DOY Magazine

My wife and I had couples therapy on TV. It nearly wrecked our marriage

After Jessica and I received expert counselling from the hit show Couples Therapy, I became public enemy number one. Here’s what didn’t make it to the screen

www.theguardian.com

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elliott junkyard 🍉 @transarchivist.bsky.social · 1d

if anyone is going to a #nokings rally and wants zines to hang out, drop me a line and ill send you files for the low low price of the promise you won't try to sell them

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 1d

graham linehan’s latest escalation is hiring ppl to dox and harass trans women. 🤷‍♀️

jus imagine for a second that a cis man was doing this to cis women.

society says not only is it okay to do it to trans women but it’s fine to publicly crowdfund to pay for it. 😕

Let's hire a private detective!
Here's where we are: for wears, Ive been reporting a group of men to the police. They ve harassed dozens of people.
the harassment and death threats they send my way, nothing happens. When others report them, nothing happens.
But here's what does happen: the police investigate us for talking about them.
Ine grotesque nature or this colacerason would be laservano trom a oritance. Unortunatty, fi not as a ostance, and it's been going on for years.
So I've decided to do something that feets wonderfully ridiculous and also completely necessary, hire a proper private detective. Someone who actually investigates things. Novel concept, I know.
I'm deughted to say that our prece on Melody Uawion has resuited in members of his tamity ottung m touch. And that s what we can do without a private detective. Think what will happen if we get professionals on the case.
Picture it: a licensed imestigater with a proper case file, following leads from Sussex to Capetown, gathering evidence the authorities keco oretendina doesn't exist. Well comale everything, oresent & to indroundent abservers and every maic)
outlet we can find.
What Your Money Gets
• A licensed investigator who actually does the job
• Document searches, survellance, evidence gathering
• Property documented findings that can be used legally or journalistically
Iknow vou're sick of the Cancel Tax. I'm sick ct it too. But ths onels dicent. This one micht oroduce results that and
decoly satistving no matter where you are in the foht. The l& detective work. And when tis done, we'll have something
Why It Costs What It Costs
The goal looks high because this isn't some bloke following someone to Tesco. This is a proper irvestigation spanning multiple juriscictions. Were not just atter a few bad actors. We want to out all of them.
Every donation puts us closer to exposing something the authorities have worked very

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

One great aspect of iconic inflatable costumes (aside from how they instantly undermine propaganda about war zones) is that it's useless to arrest the person wearing one. Cuffing a frog would make law enforcement look pathetic. And carting one off just guarantees that more will show up the next day.

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♿🏳️‍⚧️ Need Dental Funds ASAP! @wylder.bsky.social · Mar 3

"Im not giving to anyone!"

Well, thats where you fucked up. Those who shunned community care used to be banned from those communities for a reason. Society is mutual care & Im done excusing apathy & disdain as not fascist.

You don't get a lil fascism as a treat & have marginalized folks trust you.

♿🏳️‍⚧️ Need Dental Funds ASAP! @wylder.bsky.social · Feb 23

Honestly, everyone who considers themself a leftist should be part of the mutual aid community. Whether you're giving, boosting, or making sure an emergency doesn't have a chance to turn into an eviction.

The more comfortable everyone is with shared needs the better off we all are. #MutualAid

♿🏳️‍⚧️ Need Dental Funds ASAP! @wylder.bsky.social · Feb 21

The stronger the mutual aid community gets the better off we all are. Adding another person in need doesn't weaken us, it spreads our reach.

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