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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 1h

frustration at the partisan discourse around bad bunny at the super bowl, and in general about the presumption of liberals towards puerto rico as a colony

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Big Game, Bad Bunny

When you meet a Puerto Rican, the first thing they tell you is that they're Puerto Rican. The second thing they tell you is that they're an ...

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 2h

why is erika kirk wearing a black mesh top at the oval office it’s like funeral at 6 but club at 10

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 20h

yep literally bought tickets before she blew up 🙂‍↕️

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 22h

Charli XCX says she was worried about negatively impacting the ‘SWEAT’ tour due to being a ‘smaller’ artist than Troye Sivan.

“I was worried that people would be like, ‘Oh no, who’s this girl preventing us from hearing ‘Rush’? Um, and then obviously, you know, things kinda changed for me.”

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 21h

we're understanding Joe Rogan Brain more and more every day

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 22h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

its really unfortunate the "accidentally became important at work" tweet is the realest shit of all time

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 1d

HISTORY HAS ABSOLVED ME

Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 6d

i don’t doubt the utility of ground news per se but i’ve only ever seen suckers use/promote it

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Lasciva, peluchière @lascivapeluchiere.bsky.social · 1d

Who's the cutest balloon in the afterworld, mmmh ?

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 1d

farther from convinced :/

Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · Aug 31

i’m sure it’s a good movie but i can’t bring myself to be interested in kpop demon hunters bc i can’t shake the feeling that it was green-lit for having kpop in its name and i fear it doesn’t rise above that

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 1d

i had went with a friend to an art market a few weeks ago and was struck by how cool, by way of being countercultural, they all thought they were

it’s just all so nothing, and yet it’s engaged as something even by fascists—it’s all appearance! we’re trapped in the spectacle

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 1d

at best it’s a complaint masking more serious issues of ladder-pulling and taking a seat at the table of the ruling class

at worst the mere appearance of non-assimilation becomes a virtue and a cudgel against material demands and social critique

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 1d

tbh i think assimilation is a red herring of a non-issue, and one should be more wary of aestheticization and authenticity-seeking

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 1d

historian of Latin America here, reminder that Columbus's extreme cruelty to indigenous peoples was known to his contemporaries and got him in trouble *then*

yes this man was so racist that he got chastised for it in *1500*

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 2d

this is genuinely crazy and cool as fuck!!! need to read more in depth after work, but this will blow your mind in terms of what's possible for od&d when shoved out of its own context

#icon0clasm

Oleander Garden @voidhyacinth.bsky.social · 2d

SONGS FOR POLYMEDE.

Free tomboyish supplement for FMC (1974 OD&D + Chainmail). Campaign setting & special rules & poetry. For the FMC Icon0clasm Ball. Class as sex class + angels + resource rules + false canon + imagined mythic history.

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Oleander Garden @voidhyacinth.bsky.social · 2d

SONGS FOR POLYMEDE.

Free tomboyish supplement for FMC (1974 OD&D + Chainmail). Campaign setting & special rules & poetry. For the FMC Icon0clasm Ball. Class as sex class + angels + resource rules + false canon + imagined mythic history.

oleandergarden.itch.io/songs-for-po...

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 2d

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 2d

finally realized my vision

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 3d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 3d

a state of Puerto Rico could be a light red state if the GOP was even 20 percent less racist

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3d

Bad Bunny went from bagging groceries recording music on SoundCloud to being one of the most streamed artists in the world. He embodies the entrepreneurial spirit of Latinos that Republicans say should make them natural conservatives. Instead they are crashing out on him.

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 3d

does anyone ever talk about fanon’s passage on white woman tiddies

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 4d

vampire

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 4d

Taylor Swift joins Sabrina Carpenter as the only female artists in history to have the #1 album and top 3 singles on the UK charts simultaneously.

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 5d

i love liberal cis women like they see a drag queen and they're on their knees crying like they're in the presence of jesus

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 5d

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