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@activeoppressor.bsky.social
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Inefficiently educated queer slob nerd. He/him. Avatar photo by Phill Dane on Unsplash.

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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The only Republican I will say R.I.P. for.
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Chuck Norris, action hero and ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’ star, has died | CNN
Chuck Norris, veteran, martial arts world champion, action hero and early 2000s Internet meme inspiration, whose rugged demeanor was immortalized on hit show “Walker, Texas Ranger,” has died.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I like the “we’ve been at war with iran for 40 years” talking point because by implication surviving members of the reagan bush natsec team should be tried for treason
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
R.I.P. comicbookmovie.com/comics/marve...
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Sal Buscema, Legendary SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN Artist, Has Passed Away Age 89
Comic book artist Sal Buscema, the legendary artist best known for his work on The Incredible Hulk and Spectacular Spider-Man, passed away just a couple of days before his 90th birthday.
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
R.I.P. Michael Parenti
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I haven't watched Discovery, but every description I've read of The Burn sounds completely ridiculous. It was caused by an emotional attunement to dilithium? What? I'm sorry to be an old crank but this seems lazy and nonsensical to me.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Opinion | If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he would give his Nobel peace prize to Donald Trump
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
When someone says Trump and his cronies should be arrested on January 20 2029, they should specify what they'd be charged with. I'm not a lawyer and I have no idea what Vance or Noem or anyone else could be arrested for besides treason or murder. This has become one of my niche pet peeves.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I never saw RDJ as Tony Stark and I definitely don't see him as Doom.
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
All In the Family was a sacred text in our house when I was a child. When Harry Met Sally is my wife's favorite movie. I saw The Princess Bride for the first time after a date had canceled on me a few hours before. I was enthralled. I don't know what to do now. R.I.P. Rob Reiner.
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
R.I.P Todd Snider Wtf is this world
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Cowards.
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Is No Kings a march, a protest, or a demo? Was it coherent, or counterrevolutionry? I don't know! I do know that it's good for people to have fun hating Trump. Maybe it's not tactically optimal, but it's more effective than doing nothing. People did something! Maybe they'll do something else too!
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Arguments like ACTUALLY TRUMP ISN'T A KING HE'S A FASCIST are ridiculous. You choose a name that attracts attention and somehow captures the imagination. When Republicans came up with GWOT do you think someone said UM BUT TERROR IS A CONCEPT NOT AN ARMY? Hell no. Precise word usage does not matter.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 17/10/2025
This made me laugh
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Announcing a CIA operation is super smart
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I just learned that "bridesmaid proposal boxes" exist. Personal opinion, if you have extra money to spend on a wedding, use it on child care for guests and better food.
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I hate that I'm afraid Trump's peace plan will work because then "savvy" randos will be calling him Donald the dove and similar nonsense. Nonetheless I hope it works, but it's quite likely Israel violates it on some pretense within a week. And of course the genocide is nearly complete already.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
One of the things that brings me the greatest despair in authoritarianism is watching people react to state violence the way they react to domestic violence. By justifying anything and everything the perpetrators does through blaming a victim for failing to be submissive enough.
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
SC "lets" Lisa Cook stay at the federal reserve. I really don't like this phrasing. The attempted firing is illegal and it's not a Constitutional issue. Trump doesn't have the power to fire her, period. SC "won't" make the clearly correct decision is the correct phrasing.
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Announcing the location and date of a gathering of every senior leader in the U.S. military seems extremely not smart.
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Don't watch Republican events.
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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
I will day this, the Disney Adults have proven themselves much more ready to meet this moment than any Harry Potter Adult has.
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Jfc you do not need credentials and "access" to do journalism. In fact, all those things get you is bullshit and propaganda. Do actual reporting instead of standing in a room with Hegseth while he talks nonsense.
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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I don't mind being wrong about the Kirk shooter's motivation. But it changes nothing. Kirk was scum and the MAGAts were going to do all this anyway. Reactionaries always pretend they were forced into things they already planned and have already done.
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Assuming Newsom and Pritzker both seek the Dem nomination in 2028, be ready for the barrage of fatphobic shit-throwing from off the record insiders who are actually Newsom staffers or DNC players.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
It isn’t “grace” to pretend to hand-wring over a man who called for violence, praised gun culture, dehumanized trans folks, and led young people into violent nationalism. It is disingenuousness at best, rank cowardice at worst. And it does harm. If your words whitewash a fascist, stop speaking.
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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
"political violence is never acceptable," is a phrase you don't hear politicians say after cops beat the shit out of peaceful demonstrators
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
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the corghoul from cowboy beBOO! 👻 @realqrampage.fightins.online · 11/09/2025
I do not understand the mindset that makes liberals express sympathy for someone who would have absolutely celebrated if the roles were reversed, like bro, have some god damned self respect
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Blanket condemnation of political violence is ridiculous. This is a tactical matter. Is Kirk's death going to help reactionaries, or not? Today, next month, in five years? Reactionaries engage in political violence every single day. All of right-wing policy is attempted murder. 1/2
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grrms 🦠 @frrms.blacksky.app · 10/09/2025
Political violence absolutely has a place. That's how I'm a free Haitian-American: because my ancestors used the tools available to them. There may be a time when you need the tool to. That day may not be today, but it's important to have a well-stocked toolbox. Dealer's choice, of course.
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Charlie Kirk is, or was, a fascist shitbag and I don't care what happens, or happened, to him. Fascist shitbags should be afraid to appear in public. In a functioning society they would be made irrelevant, not invited to campus. The left can't be the people who get shot but never fight back.
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Fuck Charlie Kirk obviously
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Resigning in protest is just giving up power. Only exception is if your resignation makes it impossible to do something you're against, which is very rarely the case. You're not Tony Stark, you can and will be replaced with someone terrible. Stay and fight.
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
R.I.P. www.mlb.com/news/davey-j...
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Davey Johnson, 1986 Mets manager and 4-time All-Star, passes at 82
Davey Johnson, the All-Star second baseman who won two World Series as a player with the Baltimore Orioles and managed the New York Mets to their dramatic victory in the 1986 World Series, has passed ...
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
R.I.P. www.cbc.ca/sports/hocke...
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Former Canadiens star goaltender Ken Dryden dies of cancer at age 78 | CBC Sports
Ken Dryden, the Hall of Fame goaltender whose long resume in and out of hockey included six Stanley Cup victories and helping backstop Canada's generation-defining victory at the 1972 Summit Series, d...
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Based on my unscientific observations of Internet, the pettiest and most fragile people in the world are foodies, personal trainers, backpackers, climbers, and Knight Rider fans. The least are cigarette smokers, strongmen, and BJJ hobbyists.
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Had to leave the Knight Rider subreddit due to an expanding freakout over the upcoming reboot/sequel series. Will the new lead look like Hasselhoff?? Will KITT be a trans am?? WHO CARES Fan service is out of control. Just make a good show. Long-time fans are owed nothing.
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James Youngman @jyoungman.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I last attended a school 25 years ago. Nonetheless I still feel sick and afraid the first week of school. I feel so sorry for the kids. I don't even like walking onto a college campus.
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Tom Clancy's Our Bodies Ourselves
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
For once there's a benefit to being fat and depressed
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 27/08/2025
Thing I just said to @annaleen.bsky.social: "I am magmanaminous, which means that I am generous and made of lava."
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
If everything Trump does is a "distraction," then what are those things distracting us from? All the "distractions" undermine democracy and threaten human life. Maybe all the DC Dems need to start on amphetamines.
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Trump is actually running the country like a business. No long-term planning, no accountability for management, rule by fear, arbitrary orders given and dissension punished. Exactly what leftists have always said would happen if anyone attempted this.
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I'm suspicious of any workout program that doesn't have videos of their classes online. I mean actual videos of the actual classes so I can see wtf it is. It's bad marketing AND it's culty.
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I bought The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter. I looked for the inevitable chapter where it says to go hungry and there it is. I was like fuck this I'm returning it. But does this mean I should read it since I already hate it? I think I'll read it so I can ask If Books Could Kill to do an episode.
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AO @activeoppressor.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
R.I.P. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/d...
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Danielle Spencer, Sassy Young Star of ‘What’s Happening!!,’ Dies at 60
She survived a horrific auto accident during the sitcom's second season and went on to become a veterinarian.
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