Reposted by Absurdistwords 🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Also For everyone While we ponder and pontificate When was the last time someone was dragged out of your house ? Like before many of you talk this BS But blunt as hell when was the last time someone was dragged out of your house? 1323
Absurdistwords @absurdistwords.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I have been running a number of mutual aid projects for over a decade. I do rent/food/utility assistance, now renovating a building for safe local organizing I need help If you see fit to contribute, consider donating here. No cool perks. Just helping people live Patreon.com/absurdistwordspatreon.comGet more from AbsurdistWords on PatreonA rent-payment system. Each recipient will get full funds for a specific number of months. 24137
Absurdistwords @absurdistwords.bsky.social · 29/01/2025For those of you looking to support, care for, heal and bolster your communities, US Military Field Guides are an invaluable, free resource for all sorts of community needs. Don't re-invent the wheel. You'll be amazed how much practical info exists here. archive.org/details/mili...archive.orgInternet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine 18292108
Reposted by Absurdistwords Cassandra @cassieclearly.bsky.social · 28/01/2025And it's not even that they "expand" the definition. They just finally let you read the dictionary they've been using all along. Any time you hear the word "degeneracy" as something to attack, you need to hear it in the mouth of the most hateful, bigoted person you can imagine 0188
Reposted by Absurdistwords Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 27/01/2025“Read the books they’re banning. That’s where the good stuff is!” - LeVar Burton 📚❤️🩹💛 🧵 1/8 151244213
Reposted by Absurdistwords Jill Filipovic @jillfilipovic.bsky.social · 28/01/2025This order doesn't just ban trans people from the military. It states that this administration believes trans people lack "an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle" and that being trans "is not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member." 21329108
Reposted by Absurdistwords 🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025People are responding to stress and trauma differently, with very real assessments of their limits . Folks will be doing different things than you , because they live different lives to you. Learn to observe without projecting and inferring 07722
Absurdistwords @absurdistwords.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Some of y'all are going to be clinging to "That couldn't happen here" till they lower you. 0474
Reposted by Absurdistwords The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 21/01/2025This is one of the most ghoulish things I’ve ever fucking read. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 671450458
Reposted by Absurdistwords Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/01/2025DEM SENATOR: Well there’s always next time 😃 a hearty “good game” to my colleagues across the aisle as they shepherd our great nation in the spirit of collaboration and teamwork! 🦅🫡 REPUBLICAN SENATOR: Does anyone know when it’s technically legal for me to kill this [SLUR NO ONE HAS SAID SINCE 1889] 2160651503
Reposted by Absurdistwords Alex @hippoinatutu.bsky.social · 21/01/2025We should have punched more nazis. 0259
Reposted by Absurdistwords A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Honestly one of most chilling parts of this fascist rise is watching journalism stumble around the point without ever finding it like Mr. Magoo dodging every calamity around a construction site. The implications are entirely clear. They're burning the planet to line their own pockets. 531277
Reposted by Absurdistwords Blocking/Muting = Self-Care @queeringpsychology.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Back to the psych onslaught Daily updates on the rights we’re losing Learning how to attend to your nervous system & recover from trauma responses is essential Fascism loves to take advantage of our fear/trauma responses Part of fighting fascism is fighting disconnection from self & communities 16729
Reposted by Absurdistwords Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Let's be clear about what's happening. Trump is freeing the violent paramilitary wing of his movement from prison in order to: 1) demonstrate that violence committed in service of his objectives will go unpunished, and 2) facilitate future acts of violence in service of his regime. 521536474
Absurdistwords @absurdistwords.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Anyone apologize to @sarahkendzior.bsky.social yet? 14818
Reposted by Absurdistwords Joy @joybella.blacksky.app · 20/01/2025Now's as good a time as any to stop relying on mainstream media to confirm anything for you. That's how so many things get explained away, because the media didn't report on it. You know what you saw. 13635
Reposted by Absurdistwords Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 20/01/2025MAGA and Corporate Media: That wasn't a Nazi salute that was just a Roman salute. Also, that isn't goose-stepping, that's just a dance move. Oh, and that's not a swastika but just an old Indian symbol for good luck. 691625240
Reposted by Absurdistwords Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 20/01/2025We're going to normalize Nazi rhetoric, symbols, slogans, conspiracies and eugenics within 2 weeks. I predicted this would happen by 2024 a few years ago, and I take no joy in being right about it. Corporate media will sanewash it. You think I'm being hyperbolic but you're not paying attention. 1182797560
Absurdistwords @absurdistwords.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Liberals and moderates are circling the wagons... around the Nazis. 0164
Reposted by Absurdistwords Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 06/11/2024The Mr. Rogers advice for moments of crisis is a useful thing to remember right now. Look for the helpers. Look for the people organizing to protect the most vulnerable. Look for the people who have been concretely planning for how to respond, and are ready to implement. Join them, if you can. 44101043624
Reposted by Absurdistwords Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 20/01/2025bumping this from three weeks ago in light of Elon Musk busting out a LITERAL FUCKING NAZI SALUTE at inauguration 7524128
Absurdistwords @absurdistwords.bsky.social · 20/01/2025I came into consciousness in the late seventies by which point all media was insisting the the Civil rights movement, barely 10 years old was ancient history. By the time I was 10 they were teaching Civil Rights Movements as if they were as far back then as they are now. 0110
Absurdistwords @absurdistwords.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Nobody in office will stand up to fascism. Ever. Just let that dream go and plan and organize accordingly. 1305
Reposted by Absurdistwords Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/01/2025Instead of fantasizing about how white nationalism will make great fodder for future academic discussions, talk about what you’re doing as a white person to impede violent white nationalism Change the story you expect people to write 215117
Absurdistwords @absurdistwords.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Inside you are all 7 and you should watch them fall. 171
Absurdistwords @absurdistwords.bsky.social · 12/01/2025DEI is used interchangeably with Affirmative Action by those who hate both even though they're not at all the same thing. They don't care about the nuance. It's all just a euphemism for nig with the hard R. 3298
Reposted by Absurdistwords C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Hard to tell at this remove how many CEOs/companies are slashing DEI initiatives to look better to the incoming administration and its supporters, or because they never wanted them in the first place and took the first chance they could to kick them to the curb. I suspect a great deal of overlap. 0285
Absurdistwords @absurdistwords.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Imma need the News to stop talking about companies "Moving away from DEI" and start writing about how "White men aren't actually competitive in an open labor field and need exclusionary policies to keep pace." 13854307
Reposted by Absurdistwords Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 10/01/2025anita bryant won’t see you celebrating her death but the hateful venal spineless shits that are selling out lgbtq people to toady up to the Trump administration will so make it count 101490404
Absurdistwords @absurdistwords.bsky.social · 10/01/2025I don't get why anyone is surprised. Insurance companies make money by minimizing risk. If a place is going to be on fire all the time, why accept the risk? This was always a ridiculous system but it was harder to see when the problems weren't as visible. 3305
Absurdistwords @absurdistwords.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Despite what everyone thinks, doomsaying is a sacrificial public service. 080
Absurdistwords @absurdistwords.bsky.social · 10/01/2025While we're at it, let's disarm them and see how that goes. 2193
Reposted by Absurdistwords Gregory The A'ight @gregoryaight.bsky.social · 04/01/2025I wish more people cared. 12610
Absurdistwords @absurdistwords.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Id been asking myself the question "Is AI or Fascism the mostly likely cause of the downfall of society?" for a long time before finally realizing the answer was "Yes" 2181
Absurdistwords @absurdistwords.bsky.social · 31/12/2024I don't presume anyone online I didn't know before 2020 is human. It occurred to me that I might be alone in this. 7354
Reposted by Absurdistwords A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Every member of the Trump administration and every Republican who voted to overturn the election should have been named a domestic enemy of the United States and been taken into military custody on 1/20/21 and the trials should have concluded by 3/31. Yes maybe you should have done it differently. 646183
Reposted by Absurdistwords Alex @hippoinatutu.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Freedom of speech is not freedom from critique. 091
Reposted by Absurdistwords Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 29/12/2024factions of the far right may be eating each other alive, but they always do this, and would be just as glad to turn and sink their teeth into your neck. the sniping can be entertaining and useful, but don't mistake it for meaningful fractures in the project of ressentiment. 342646457
Absurdistwords @absurdistwords.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Everybody hates on Capitalism, but nobody talks about how it extends lifespans by not giving people time to die. 0120
Reposted by Absurdistwords (Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 24/12/2024I think there should be regulations that force companies to limit the scope of their software when you first buy or download it, to not let them expand the scope of what it does. If I download a word processor, it doesn't get to later become a surveillance data reaper to feed AI. 1276
Reposted by Absurdistwords RoseyRoseamund - VOTE, OR FUCK OFF! @roseyroseamund.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Did you know a great place to start your political journey against fascism is your local politics? School boards, city, state races are INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT. Start small. You got this. 56921
Reposted by Absurdistwords Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 20/12/2024Between the shutdown, the drones, and them perp walking Luigi like he’s the goddamn Joker, I think it’s clear the writers are officially out of ideas and are just grabbing whatever was left in the cutting room floor. 302172371860
