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Laura

@tutusntinyhats.bsky.social

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The future is mutual aid. ✨ 💪 Trying to build community at the intersections of art and justice movements, sometimes organizing mutual aid fundraisers and distributing zines. 🕎 for a free 🇵🇸. Dog auntie, flower lover, tchotchke queen. she/her

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · Feb 23

One of my favorite things about Bluesky (or at least my little corner of it) is that people are always sharing resources for taking action.

So here's a pinned thread collecting those resources, some made by me and some made by others.

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 9h

Amazing!!

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 9h

I’ve done FORTY now and two doubles for Trans sisters!

you guys are amazing and if you want to keep it going, my venmo is @ziibiing

ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 12h

i’ve gotten to give out 17 $50 venmo “buy yourself a bag of grocery” gifts to Indigenous folks who could use it today

$50 can really make someones day

want to help do more?

OMG YOU ARE THE BEST
THANK YOU SMMMM
I NEEDED FOOD MONEY UGH
YOURE AN ANGEL

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10h

I've been told that this 2019 fundraiser for Miss Major started after her stroke is where anyone who might want to contribute to the expenses of her family in the immediate future should contribute: fundly.com/missmajor - It will stay open for the time being.

Click here to support Miss Major's Monthly Fundraising Circle by Friends of Miss Major

After Miss Major's 2019 stroke, donations go to continuing her rehab + her retirement fund, in addition to helping care for Asiah, the baby she and Beck ...

fundly.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 9h

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Moti Rieber @rebmoti.bsky.social · 9h

Israelis are "hostages"; Palestinians are "detainees." Israelis come home with worldwide media coverage, Palestinians are threatened by Israel if they dare talk about their release.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 10h

Fun fact, in the original text of Exodus, the plural form is not used. It’s not a plague of frogs. It’s a plague of frog. A plague of frog that will cover all of Egypt. Frogzilla. One Kaiju frog.

Melanie @macsmail.bsky.social · 10h

This country needs a plague of frogs! 🐸 🐸 🐸 🐸

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10h

Are you considering seeking appointment or running for a seat on your local library board? Are you on the Left(s)? Apply to join FTP's Library Board Candidate cohort which will launch in Feb 2026: forms.gle/RuTxVLjvnX8K...

FTP Library Elections & Appointments Training Cohort

Hello! You're filling out this form because you've expressed interest in running for or seeking appointment to a local library board seat in your community (or because you're a serving trustee who'd l...

forms.gle

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 12h

Reading Miss Majors Speaks was an incredibly moving experience last year. I can't recommend this book enough for those unfamiliar with her work.

Rest in peace 🖤

Miss Major Speaks Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Toshio Meronek and Miss Major

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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 1d

We're currently assembling packets containing a whistle and the instructions (quick blasts for ICE spotted, long for ICE detaining someone.) Here's what we're using. (Thanks to Pilsen Arts & Community House for the flyer design in English and Spanish)
drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Resources for Whistle Warriors - Google Drive

drive.google.com

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 15h

A few messages seen today in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood

A poster on a pole next to a street says:
“ICE YOU ARE NOT INVISIBLE
!RECORD!
!RECORD!
!RECORD!
NAZI RATS LEAVE OUR CITY”

A stack of posters featuring a hammer-wielding figure with the stars of the Chicago wrapped around his torso. It says:
“I PREFER MY ICE CRUSHED. END IMMIGRATION ARRESTS, DEFEND OUR SANCTUARY”

A sign in a store window says: “WE DON’T [SERVE is crossed out] FEED ICE OR PIGS! even if you steal this sign”

The words “ICE OUT” are written in chalk on a sidewalk.

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Girl, I Guess @mikellestreet.bsky.social · 11h

Very sad to have published this obituary tonight, but tried to do her legacy justice

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Stonewall Veteran and Legendary Trans Activist, Has Died at 78

www.them.us/story/miss-m...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Stonewall Veteran and Legendary Trans Activist, Has Died at 78

Miss Major continued fighting for trans rights even after two strokes and other health concerns.

www.them.us

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 11h

YIKES on bikes!

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Ariella @ariella-monti.bsky.social · 20h

Today’s a good day to help Paperbacks and Frybread Co. launch North Carolina’s first Indigenous bookmobile.

givebutter.com/Zqqo6K

Help Launch NC’s First Indigenous Mobile Bookstore

Representation belongs on every shelf, in every town. Let’s take it there.

givebutter.com

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 12h

i’ve gotten to give out 17 $50 venmo “buy yourself a bag of grocery” gifts to Indigenous folks who could use it today

$50 can really make someones day

want to help do more?

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 3d

30-50 feral frogs

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 3d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 2d

Hey, Sydette needs help. She is one of the people who makes the world brighter and better simply by existing. If you have the capacity, please consider dropping her what you can.

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I really need help with this . I’m gonna go hyperventilate into a bag but this has gone bad quickly

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Apr 10

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

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Spookyanna 🎃 @uhnopenottoday.blacksky.app · 2d

I think at some point y’all gotta recognize that nobody can do politics as we know it, succeed, and also be a good person who stands on what they believe in. The system is irreparably broken and literally does not allow it. So you gotta decide what you want to do with that knowledge.

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 23h

an Indigenous Peoples Day reminder that borders are bullshit and every Indigenous person from across the Americas deserves to be in the US more than every person of European origin

fuck borders, fuck ICE, land back.

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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 13h

Total is now $155! Thankful for those contributing and redistributing wealth for IPD! 💕 @ziibiing.com

#IndigenousPeoplesDay 💸💕

Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 14h

Total received is now $105! Thank u so much for the support! A nice memory for Indigenous ppls Day, receiving mutual aid support. ❤️

Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 3d

Cost of a new replacement wheel chair at our local RX. Posting paylinks for anyone wanting to contribute to help Dez with safer wheelchair.

Paypal: paypal.me/xodanix3?cou...

Cash app & Venmo: doublerainbowomg

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Emmy Scott @emmynawjoopinga.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Saturday! For #NationalComingOutDay support Two-Spirit organizations! I am the treasurer for one on Winnebago Reservation in Nebraska serving NE & Iowa. We hold safe space family events & educational teach-ins. Donate here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
#SettlerSaturday #HelpSky #IndigiSky

The Winnebago Two-Spirit Org Leadership holding a Winnebago Tribal Flag.

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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 14h

Hello, new followers. Welcome. A reminder that Native and Indigenous peoples are not monoliths. We have different spiritual beliefs, cosmologies, traditions, and languages. Some of us are also Black, white, Asian, and/or from beyond Western borders. We don't speak for our nations or tribes which is

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 12h

I'm on Naumkeag, Massachusett, and Pawtucket land (near Boston).

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 1d

would you like to donate to a Pueblo nonprofit that is actually doing awesome shit? here you go!

swop.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/cont...

Support Pueblo Action Alliance | SWOP PowerBase

swop.ourpowerbase.net

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