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Alison Ryland

@acryland.bsky.social
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No TERFs, no SWERFs, no cop apologists. A gestapo by any other name is still a gestapo. Genocide is bad, actually. So are concentration camps.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2h
The Kennedy Center is on the verge of destruction; the members of its board, filled with foreign policy grifters and billionaire wives, serve as a kind of cheat code for understanding the crimes of Trump 2.0. A great taxonomy to the staging behind the scenes: prospect.org/2026/10/13/k...
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The KC Mafia - The American Prospect
Behind Trump’s private equity–style bust-out of the Kennedy Center, a pack of billionaires and MAGA grifters have planned bigger heists, from Hollywood to Western Sahara.
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Inspired by the Divine ($0/$295) @kaideekat.bsky.social · 7h
Mutual aid request! 💕💸 Please help a disabled trans couple survive! October Needs $99 - car insurance $118 - phone bill $78 - pain meds $0/$295 venmo.com/u/KaideeKat cash.me/KaideeKat paypal.me/KaideeKat #HelpSky #MABoost #FundSky #MutualAid #HelpFolksLive 💕💸🏳️‍⚧️ #EmergencyMutualAid
Kaidee is photographed from the hips up, nude.  Her arms are crossed across her chest with her hands on her opposite collarbones.  She is looking off to the right of frame, and her exposed nipple is covered by a starburst.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1h
i think a lot of folks who are tuned in to the many harms of ai/surveillance tech struggle with how to talk about it without getting stuck on the details of particular devices or platforms, and imo this is the core frame: the future is up for grabs. it doesn't have to be this way. let's change it
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O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 1h
A tragedy for the ages. Rip.
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Annie West @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social · 1h
So great when a major charity asks you to donate artwork for their fundraiser art auction which is being promoted with AI slop
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 4h
Dr. El-Sayed “is the only Democrat running in one of the country’s most competitive Senate races who has publicly called for a pause on A.I. development or outlined a comprehensive policy program to regulate it. In an interview, he said that voters regularly expressed concerns to him about A.I.”
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El-Sayed, Releasing His Platform on A.I., Calls It an ‘Existential Crisis’
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan is the first Democrat running in a battleground Senate race to publicly call for a pause on artificial intelligence development.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h
White House: “We have asked Ambassador Guilfoyle to resign. She has been a wonderful asset to the team, and we wish her well.” Lesson is not that graft is not tolerated by the White House, but do it via crypto or corporate deals rather than texts asking for cash. And be a male, preferably a Trump.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1h
“Zionism” is not complicated. Not a “loose ideology” we have to understand as we enter the fourth year of a genocide done in its name. I cannot bring myself to watch NAZA but reviews about the glee soldiers have in killing has me enraged. Do not come in my mentions trying to sanitize it.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h
Former “free speech” crusaders have ushered in an unprecedented campaign of censorship in Texas universities, resulting in pulitzer winning books being banned, medical and scientific facts being suppressed, and entire fields of study deemed “woke” being eliminated www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
Over the past decade, some conservatives have invoked principles of academic freedom and free speech in order to subvert both. These conservatives mocked “snowflakes” and “trigger warnings,” and then passed legislation making it illegal to hurt white students’ feelings by discussing historical or contemporary events. They invoked academic freedom and then began erasing fields of study they found politically inconvenient. They railed against “indoctrination,” and then argued that the state is entitled to control everything said in the classroom.
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
He was arrested by the Inquisition-era Spanish for crimes against humanity and mismanaging the New World territories
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Snarky Robot, but Halloween-themed @snarkyrobot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The people he slaughtered were also “people of his time” and I’m happy viewing him from their perspective.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 13/10/2025
The "man of his times" crowd always seem to forget that Columbus was arrested and tried by *the Spanish crown* for his cruelty toward Indigenous people.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
was talking about a different century here but, hey, still works bsky.app/profile/oluf...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
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StaceyActually @socialistchi.bsky.social · 18h
Lucy Salani was the only Italian trans person to escape Nazi concentration camps alive. She was forced into the German army, and immediately deserted. She would escape multiple camps before sent to die in Dachua where she also escaped She lived to be 99 years old and fought for peace her whole life
Lucy Salani in a gorgeous glamorous outfitLucy Salani looking at photos from throughout her lifeLucy SalaniLucy Salani accepting an award, she is holding a microphone
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👻 El Fantazmar 👻 @azmar.ficson.fr · 2h
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Caisse de solidarité — 8 555 384 € collectés depuis 2016
Depuis 2016, la Caisse de solidarité a collecté 8 555 384 € pour soutenir les salariés en lutte.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 14h
This. 100%. If you absolutely need to doom spiral right this second: log off. You’re fully entitled to feel how you feel, but skeeting “We’re so fucked” thrice daily like a Gregorian chant helps nothing and no one, including yourself. And decent odds those strangers you’re arguing with are bots.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Borders exist to give colonialist projects moral and rhetorical cover for violence defending land they stole. They’re still just imaginary lines harming very much not imaginary people.
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Alison Ryland @acryland.bsky.social · 1h
The Nazis also used people's immigration status to threaten, arrest, and imprison people. In case you were on the fence about this being fascism.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is quite literally what happened to one of my grandparents in 1933. You know, in case we still have folks in the “it’s not fascism if it doesn’t meet these very specific, arbitrary characteristics based on my own refusal to accept responsibility to oppose it” crowd.
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A’ine Evergreen 🏳️‍⚧️ @sith-art.bsky.social · 2h
Reminder, this is the same organisation that held Jimmy Saville as a pillar of morality until after he was dead and gone, despite knowing of his crimes for decades. So yeah, a real beacon of morality that will surely give an unbiassed telling. /HEAVY sarcasm.
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Alison Ryland @acryland.bsky.social · 19h
reuters.com
US immigration authorities raid home of Democratic Trump critic Ilhan Omar
Omar wrote on social media that the US government is being weaponized to target a political enemy of the president ahead of the midterm elections.
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Alison Ryland @acryland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
For Indigenous People's Day
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The Halluci Nation - Burn Your Village To The Ground (Official Audio)
YouTube video by The Halluci Nation
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Quite Wrongly 🖤🩶🤍💜 @zerocard.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I work at a museum where they’ve been doing that, repatriating native artifacts and commissioning artists from those tribes for reproductions and reinterpretations. It’s pretty amazing.
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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · 03/10/2026
We had the absolute pleasure recently of hosting author Sarita Dasgupta for a reading from her book of Assamese short stories, Seeds of Fate. What a delightful event! Authors, artists, musicians of the PNW: want to host an event in our space? Email us any time at fridayafternoontea @ gmail .com!
An older Indian woman sitting in a chair in a tea house, reading from a book to an audienceAn older Indian woman standing beside a display of her book "Seeds of Fate" and smiling to cameraAn older Indian woman and a middle-aged Mexican-American woman hold copies of Seeds of Fate in a tea house
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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My fellow men are, god bless them, so odd. First they spent my entire teenagerhood whining that girls don't notice them. Now they hate reading about unrequited love. Which is it
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h-hzv.bsky.social @h-hzv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Rhinopithecus @insidertwets.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
In fact, the US does better at hepatitis B elimination than Denmark, by a large margin. RFK Jr and his goons are engineering a biological terrorist attack against this country. Data from WHO, links in alt text
"Mr. Kennedy has pointed to other countries, like Denmark, that offer the vaccine only to babies of infected mothers. But the nationalized health care systems in such countries ensure that pregnant women are screened for diseases before delivery, some public health experts said."

from https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/health/vaccine-committee-hepatitis-b-children-trump-rfk-jr.htmlHepatitis B antigen prevalence among children under 5 in the US. the chart starts at .1% in 2015 and ends at .02% in 2020. from
https://data.who.int/dashboards/hepatitis/emtct?m49=840Hepatitis B antigen prevalence among children under 5 in Denmark. the chart starts at .8% in 2015 and ends at .7% in 2020.
https://data.who.int/dashboards/hepatitis/emtct?m49=208
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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Also, just a reminder that RFK Jr made it a point to travel to Samoa, where he stoked anti-vax fears, in the months leading up to a major outbreak, that led to 83 deaths, mostly babies and children.
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Samoa’s prime minister criticises RFK Jr’s vaccine views after deadly measles outbreak
In an exclusive interview, Fiame Naomi Mataʻafa tells the Guardian she is surprised at Trump’s pick for health secretary and criticised anti-vaxxers for their part in 2019 measles crisis
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Alison Ryland @acryland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Who cares whether or not it's double-blind? An experiment can have a gold standard design and still be absolutely unallowable because of the harm it will cause.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This unethical vaccine study puts children’s lives at risk. Referring to kids who receive the placebo as having “lost the lottery” only confirms that those in charge know what they’re doing is wrong. They’re deliberating exposing helpless kids to hepatitis B.
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j-gf.bsky.social @j-gf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
💔 Orphaned at birth and born with a cleft lip, baby Amal cannot feed or smile. She urgently needs life-saving surgery. ​Your small donation or share can ease a grieving mother’s pain and give Amal a future. Please help today! 🙏✨ ​Campaign link 👇 spot.fund/HopeForAmal 🙏🏼 Please donate.
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kagayaki-hime (she/her, cis) @kagayaki-hime.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Alison Ryland @acryland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
For everyone in the US checking, updating, or submitting your voter registration: Remember to use vote.gov or your state election department's .gov website.
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Register to vote in your state | Vote.gov
Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 08/10/2026
Extremely grateful for the $68.17 that came in today, but I remain desperately in need of $431.83 ASAP for meds, food, bills, etc. (in addition to outstanding housing payments for 3 months, which is stressful as fuck), so please donate & share, as able!🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 paypal.me/kjagoo ko-fi.com/equitablefor...
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Xavi (Great Cats System) @sneptaur.com · 08/10/2026
Bsky screenshot, two posts on the timeline, ars technica article about more AI coming to windows, followed by the post I am replying to (are ya winning son meme but the son is on the floor crying, dad says “what’s wrong son” and son says “I’m so fucking tired of AI”)
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 08/10/2026
Congratulations to anyone who is feeling upbeat anymore or positive about the future. Hold onto that, cherish it like a newborn child, protect it like a flame from a storm.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’m on the upper deck of a London bus right now. Guy got on with a large dog and they sat in the front right seat facing out the front window. “My dog likes to pretend he’s driving the bus” Fair play doggo
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Death @insatiableone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨🚨An urgent humanitarian appeal:My baby newborn in critical condition suffering severe jaundice,adangerous viral infection, malnutrition Even smallest contribution can make a real difference Please donate if you can,share Please dont letme lose him Ibeg you😭🙏🏻💔 Molly shah✅ chuffed.org/project/save...
Beautiful baby with iv and mask
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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Our methods of research and documentation may vary across the world and time, but that curiosity, often spurred by a desire to improve the quality of human life, is possibly one of the most valuable traits we have as humans. On a personal note, I believe if we lose our curiosity, we lose ourselves.
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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The concept of science is also not the invention of any one group of people. It is a collaborative effort spanning thousands and thousands of years, practiced by all communities to have ever existed. It belongs to all of us.
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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Something that bugs me is the tendency for people to conflate science with truth. Scientific processes are how we understand the “truth” of the universe, as best as we can with our limited human perception and biases. The attacks on science harmfully blur our perception of what is and isn’t real.
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Anton ☾ ❦ ⟡ @antonarcana.gay · 06/10/2026
Not that anybody asked, but just so we’re clear, I’m not just pro choice, I’m pro abortion. Safe, accessible abortion without any hoops to jump through, for anybody who may need or want one, for any reason. It is your body. You decide if you want it to be pregnant or not.
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HELP BEX! bit.ly/HelpBex @ovaettr.gay · 06/10/2026
💕💸🍉 chuffed.org/project/omshamm
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Help Lina 💔 to leave Gaza and take care of her children and her husband injured in the Gaza war 🦴♿💉
I am Om Sham (Lina, 31). My husband Mahmoud Abu Shamalah (31) was injured in war in both legs and is now wheelchair-bound. His right foot is at risk of amputation — it has a 15cm bone deficiency requi...
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
A motherfucking order. Y'all think appreciating Black women is slogans & continue to treat us like shit as the mules of society constantly. You say you love what we do by our efforts. Well those efforts are hard & thankless. They shorten lifespans. Black women sacrifice for you, so support one.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Protesters stormed the offices of stock-market operator Euronext in Paris, turning the financial district into a scene of confrontation during nationwide unrest. The dramatic action reflected growing anger over government policies and economic inequality. As protests continue across France.
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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm really stressed about insurance this month. I write articles as a way to earn enough to cover the bills, but last months article didn't make as much as I needed it to cause I published it mid month. docseuss.medium.com/i-completed-... If you like it, please share and tip, I need about $1200
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i completed 52 games and 8 pieces of downloadable content in 2017.
In March 2018, I ended up in the ER. I had been working far, far too much and too hard and it turns out I had a congenital heart defect…
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 04/10/2026
"Mobs can run roughshod over people’s privacy on X, as what remains of Twitter is now known, in part because Musk took a chainsaw to the platform’s trust-and-safety efforts. … The site’s incentives are working just as designed."
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Nine Years After #MeToo, One Answer for Survivors Is ‘So What?’
‘Maybe she was assaulted, maybe not’: from federal agencies to online platforms, people with power and audiences take pains to show they don’t care
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 04/10/2026
"One problem is the White House — which fits, given President Trump’s return to power after being found liable for sexual abuse. … [After] a 2025 mass firing … the number of sexual violence cases resolved by OCR [the Office for Civil Rights] that year fell to zero."
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90% of student discrimination and harassment complaints were dismissed last year. Here's why.
Students with disabilities and survivors of sexual misconduct can’t rely on the Department of Education — the target of budget cuts and staff reductions — to intervene for them, new reports find.
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