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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Reposted by Carol A.

Congratulations to @flashes.blue for their official launch on the App Store 🎉🎉🎉 It’s an instagram alternative built on the AT protocol 🙌 all the visual scrolling with none of the Meta algorithm

A cropped screenshot of the Flashes app in the App Store

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Carol A. @502lou.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Here’s to a lovely beginning!

A small footed glass filled with champagne is held up in front of a grey wall by a hand.

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It’s going to be hard on a lot of people who didn’t ask for it and don’t deserve it. If you are looking for someone to blame, let me suggest the billionaires.

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Ever greater assaults to our government and the goal of that is to flood us with too much to properly respond to. Many thoughtful people are focusing on one or two important issues and advocating for them - we’re basically putting in our own oxygen mask right now. 2/2

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Where is here, Colleen? Similarly to other places - people are getting their news from a variety of places which results in a variety of opinions. I think it would help noon-USians to remember that as much as we’d like to be well-read about world news our ruling party is trying to flood us with 1/2

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We’ve been through it before. It wasn’t fun then and it won’t be fun now. We’re probably going to feel the effects of the halt in federal grants more directly as individuals. That plus the other changes coming from our own government will hurt worse IMO. It’s getting grim for regular people. 2/2

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It’s a mix of reactions, like anywhere else. KY is in the middle of its short legislative session, has a Rep. super majority, & they do not currently have plans to open up the state budget to adjust. That may change. Companies will feel tariff pain & they also had time to mitigate some of it. 1/2

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Well, if you are truly worried about it go ahead and let Governor Beshear know (with your dollars) that you’d like him to run for that seat. He stands a decent chance of winning if he runs IMO. Signed, a resident of the commonwealth of Kentucky

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Carol A. @502lou.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

His seat was safe - speaking as a Kentuckian. That man would’ve died in office if that’s what he wanted - even now. He wanted the POWER. I’d be rolling in schadenfreude except we’re all dealing with the results of his choices.

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From your lips to the universe’s ear.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Reposted by Carol A.

A website has been started in response to the orders to take down references to women’s accomplishments in government offices. We are not going to let them erase us this time. womenrefusingtobeerased.org

womenrefusingtobeerased.org

Women Refusing to Be Erased

Join us to inspire, educate, and uplift women/womxn.

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Carol A. @502lou.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

You are not the person I originally responded to, are you? Please, for the love of God, go find someone else who actually needs and wants your advice to “help”.

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Hello random internet stranger - how have you interpreted a reminder that Red states aren’t actually Red and request for people to remember that fact instead of wishing broad swaths of us harm along with the people being dunked on as anger?

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What in my responses to you indicates I’m not doing what I can and that I haven’t heard of 5 calls, the ACLU, resistbot, etc.? I started by trying to gently remind people that Red states aren’t a monolith and hoped people would have a think about their shitposting that only makes them feel good.

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Hopefully, he’s dismantling the US gov’t in front of our eyes. I feel for you & those living w/ the fear of the threat he is to their countries & I need you to understand that right now people getting their feel good licks through internet shitposting w/ no nuance is not the flex they think it is

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And what is that exactly? Because being a jerk on the internet to people who saw this coming and didn’t vote for it & are watching their country be dismantled in real time & who happen to live in a state w/ people who would vote in a Republican super majority is not the winning move you think it is.

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This would be a good time for those w/ ideas 4 what Dems & Independents should be doing in states w/ Republican super majorities to move themselves into those states & execute their ideas. No? Don’t want to? Can’t? Then may I suggest you simply acknowledge that we’re doing the best we can over here

“I’m willing to capitalize on other people’s pain to get what I want” is not the winning idea you think it is. I say this as someone who makes KY purple. Maybe workshop this a bit more before putting it on the internet for everyone to see.

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This comment has nothing to do w/ the point I was making which is that KY specifically (& the world generally) is not black and white - it is nuanced. Comments lumping everyone into this category or that one may feel good for you to say but are of very little help to solve problems.

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Way to miss the point, friend.

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What exactly do you think you are doing here? Wishing people dead and posting memes isn’t the resistance move you think it is.

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I get the frustration and it’d be great if you didn’t wish me, my family and my friends dead. Please remember there are non-Republicans living and voting here too.

Please remember that there are a not-insignificant % of people in KY and other red states who did not vote for Trump. All states are purple and it helps us all to remember that.

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