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Erin Biba

@erinbiba.bsky.social

The pronoun labeler, which was by far the most useful labeler on the site, was deleted by its creator. But thanks to @ripperoni.com there’s a new one available. I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to share your pronouns or see someone else’s pronouns at a glance.

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February 11, 2026 at 6:39 AM

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Greg Pak

@gregpak.net

Pretty fucken terrible!

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3d

I have to say, I do not love this new trend of large liberal accounts with millions of followers identifying Jews.

Occupy Democrats post: "BREAKING: Kash Patel was just busted LYING TO CONGRESS in order to protect pedophiles!
Rep. Thomas Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna have successfully been able to view a slew of unredacted Epstein files, and they discovered that Trump’s disgraced and wildly incompetent FBI Director Kash Patel has been lying to Congess, under oath, in order to protect the other rich and powerful men who played major roles in the Epstein sex-trafficking ring.
Thanks to pressure from Massie and Khanna, the DOJ reluctantly unredacted an FBI report naming Jewish billionaire Les Wexner, owner of Victoria’s Secret and notorious Epstein associate, as one of the co-conspirators in the sex-trafficking ring.
“This is significant because Kash Patel testified to Congress that FBI had no evidence of other sex traffickers. This is FBI’s own 2019 document listing Wexner as a coconspirator in child sex trafficking. It wasn’t unredacted until tonight,” said Khanna’s partner-in-justice, Rep. Thomas Massie, on Twitter on February 10th.
The two spent two hours on February 9th examining unredacted Epstein files and were shocked at what they saw.
“Most of the unredacted files were redacted—70 to 80 percent. Massie and I saw that there were six men who were co‑conspirators and were being protected. Those names need to be made public. "
"There’s no excuse for releasing survivors’ names while protecting these six men. There are probably more. In just two hours, we saw that these six men were being protected.”
Kash Patel’s FBI is actively engaged in a cover-up on behalf of serial pedophiles and must be fired immediately — and held accountable for his own role in protecting pedophiles."

February 11, 2026 at 4:02 AM

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Maddie ⧗

@critterofhabit.bsky.social

#AgathaAllAlong but make them Pokemon trainers 🙂‍↕️

February 10, 2026 at 10:20 PM

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Alejandra Caraballo

@esqueer.net

I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage.

The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.

Follow along!

February 9, 2026 at 5:08 PM

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Elizabeth Bear

@matociquala.bsky.social

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.

It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.com · 9d

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM

Ingrid

@ingridaurora.bsky.social

Tired of people thinking body shaming is okay, just because the target is an awful human being. This only hurts people who have the same or similar features that are just regular good people, by reinforcing negative serotypes.

February 5, 2026 at 5:51 AM

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Andrea Corsini :•)

@syqkos.bsky.social

Sketched some frogs🐸

Ink + watercolor

Drawing of three toad frogs piled upon each other

February 3, 2026 at 6:49 PM

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆

@chiitan.love

I love all genders🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
Because I have no gender.
Especially right now, transgender people are living with a lot of anxiety.

Why are transgender people not allowed to freely love the people they want to love?
Why can't transgender individuals live their lives with the soul they prefer?

February 3, 2026 at 7:18 PM

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céli 🍉

@pianta.bsky.social

happy black history month 🩷

Illustration of a black girl with duo tone hair sitting in a danish cookie tin filled with sewing supplies (and cookies!)

February 1, 2026 at 4:08 PM

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Saly "and more"

@salylockheart.bsky.social

Supergirl

February 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM

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Solomon

@solomonmissouri.bsky.social

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

January 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM

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Saly "and more"

@salylockheart.bsky.social

January 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM

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Saly "and more"

@salylockheart.bsky.social

Batgirl

January 14, 2026 at 9:52 PM

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦

@merz.bsky.social

I'm going to say a couple of things about Alex Pretti's handgun, that I don't think people who do not shoot will initially understand.

This photo was almost immediately distributed by the feds. I think that doing so was, for them and their attempt to whitewash the murder, a *huge* error.

Photo of Pretti's handgun and the ejected magazine, on the passenger seat of a federal vehicle.

January 26, 2026 at 6:49 PM

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Qasim Rashid, Esq.

@qasimrashid.com

You know Alex Pretti & Renee Good—the 2 white people ICE killed.

ICE has also killed Keith Porter, a Black man, Parady La, a Cambodian man, & 5 Latinos—Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos.

9 TOTAL.

ABOLISH ICE.

January 26, 2026 at 2:32 AM

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Tiff 🏳️‍⚧️ & Eve Comics

@tiffandevecomics.bsky.social

For my Fellow Minnesotans, tomorrow Jan 23rd is ICE Out MN. No work, school, or shopping. Protest where you can and stay warm. Let’s melt ICE together. #webcomics

Tiff and Eve have gotten home. They are removing their boots and jackets with visibly reddened faces from the cold. A protest sign saying “ABOLISH ICE NOW” leans against the wall.
~
(in kitchen)
Tiff: I’ll get the kettle on. Elevate your foot.”
Eve: “Yeah. I’ll use a stool.”
~
Tiff: (passing tea mug) “There was a lot of them out there.”
Eve: (on phone) “A lot of us, too.”
~
(Tiff and Eve sit in Silence. Tiff looks into the middle distance while Eve drinks tea and scrolls her phone)
~
(reality interrupts)
Eve: “ICE spotted going door-to-door 4 blocks East.”
Tiff: “How’s your foot?”
Eve: “Good. Let’s go.”
~
(Tiff and Eve stand in silence in the elevator. Tiff fidgets her fingers while Eve stands, eyes deadlocked ahead of her, with a protest sign.)
~
Tiff: “I’m scared, Eve.”
Eve: “Yeah, me too.”
~
(Walking out the door into a crowd piling into the streets of Minneapolis)
“But I feel braver with you.”

January 22, 2026 at 3:45 PM

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Aluino #ProtectJho

@aluino.blacksky.app

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there.

I need you to listen to these people.
STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.