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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

You can just pick up an abandoned project and finish it instead of starting a brand new one 🧶

A pair of lime green socks that I just finished knitting. They have a diagonal pattern that runs down the leg and top of each sock

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 05/09/2026

Does anyone know if the little translation messages that sometimes pop up when you reply to a comment are accurate?

The post you're replying to was marked as being written in German by its author. Would you like to reply in German?

The post you're replying to was marked as being written in Japanese by its author. Would you like to reply in Japanese?

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 28/08/2026

Cars sold. House under contract. Work permits acquired. We’re really doing this.

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 06/08/2026

Reminder that you control who can DM you, and you can even turn them all the way off. Go into your DMs and tap the Settings gear at the top right to update

Screenshot of options from the DM settings menu

You can continue ongoing conversations regardless of which setting you choose.
Allow direct messages from
Everyone
People I follow
No one

You can continue ongoing conversations regardless of which setting you choose.
Allow group chat invites from
Everyone
People I follow
No one

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 26/07/2026

Thinking about this. I refused to to go Target post pandemic/pre-boycott for health and beauty items because I had the same experiences detailed in the thread. And at least 80% of the customer base of the store nearest me are Black.

Darity: I think so. Because in economics, labor market discrimination is anchored on two kinds of arguments. One is the Becker taste for discrimination framework. The other is the statistical theory of discrimination.
Neither one of them really provides a story that suggests that discrimination is sustainable in the presence of employers who prefer profits to prejudice.

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 21/07/2026

When families can’t eat, on top of everything else, the risk increases of the state stepping in to remove their children because of “neglect”

Page 1 of the New York Times
TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2026
Kiana Barroso and daughter Ruby Jane, 2, in Glendale, Ariz. She lost her benefits in April, and struggles to feed her family:

HEADLINE
Faced With Mounds of Paperwork, People Are Losing Food Stamps
Eligible for Aid, but Cut Loose as States Try to Avoid Penalties for Mistakes

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 20/07/2026

Jimothy is already on Ravelry! Knitting pattern in next skeet 🧶

Jimothy the raccoon in knitted form being held by a hand, facing front toward the camera. He has button eyes and a little string smile

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 16/07/2026

The dismantling of our public health infrastructure made this outbreak the worst of this century. But worker exploitation is at the root of the problem and not enough people are talking about that

In an American context, cyclosporiasis outbreaks are almost always caused by improper sanitation at farms or food processing facilities. Farmers around the world routinely refuse to provide adequate toilet or handwashing facilities for their workers if they think they can get away with it, to save money. When exploited raspberry or spinach pickers have no choice but to relieve themselves in a hole next to the field of crops, the potential consequences are obvious. A 2013 outbreak in Texas, for instance, was tied to contaminated cilantro.
Contaminated irrigation water is another potential culprit.

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 10/07/2026

They’ll kill all of us and the planet before raising taxes

A spokesperson for Stargate's developer, Crusoe, told Floodlight that the lata center has "contributed meaningfully to the economic development" of Abilene, and its investments are "funding new fire trucks, school expansions, and road improvements across the city."

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 01/07/2026

Important info from Virginia Adoptee Rights Alliance: please read before applying for your OBC!

Facebook post by
Virginia Adoptee RightsAlliance
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July 1st is the day we've all been waiting for.
The day when the Virginia Department of Health will begin accepting applications for pre-adoption birth certificates.
Applications must be completed online, by visiting https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/vital-
records/applications-for-a-vital-record/
VARA has gotten a first look at the online application form late today. In doing so, we have identified areas where information being requested is unclear or possibly unknown to adopted persons, which may result in difficulty for some in completing the application. Please know that VARA is in contact with the office of vital records and will be providing suggestions to them on how to adjust the form to better guide adoptees in providing the correct information.
We are appreciative to all of the staff of vital records and the help they have provided thus far. We ask that everyone please be patient with them as they work to implement this new process and make it as clear and efficient as possible for everyone.
VARA will be making additional posts with information you need to know before applying, so watch for those coming soon!

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 01/07/2026

Happy July 1 to all VA-born adopted people! If you’re 18+ you can apply for a copy of your original birth certificate today!! 🎉 Here’s the link to the application. www.vdh.virginia.gov/vital-record... Please see next skeet for instructions from the Virginia Adoptee Rights Alliance

JULY 1, 2026
APPLICATIONS FOR OBCs OPEN!
Virginia Adoptee Rights Alliance

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 23/06/2026

Update on CA’s original birth certificate legislation in OP’s 🧵

CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE
SB 381 UPDATE
The hearing did not proceed.
We refused amendments that would force adoptees to get birth-parent consent for their own birth certificate.
We won't trade equal rights for conditional access.
We'll be back.

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 20/06/2026

I’ve never noticed the orangutans’ shoes in Planet of the Apes before

A pair of legs in melon-colored pants, wearing the same color orange shoes. The shoes are in the shape of an orangutan’s feet. Each have 4 toes and pronounced thumbs.

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 28/05/2026

One of the books I read most obsessively as a kid (more than 12x) was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, written in 1943 and set at the beginning of the 1900s. I learned a lot, and anything I didn’t immediately understand I looked up. Stop underestimating young people’s ability to connect with older lit!

Why do publishers modernize books?
A dated reference can break the spell a book casts on readers, said Elana Roth Parker, an agent specializing in children's and Y.A. fiction at Laura Dail Literary Agency. When a reference misses the mark, she explained, it can pull young readers out of the story.
"Kids don't want to feel the adult behind the book," Roth Parker said.
Modernization is an attempt to avoid that.
"If we want readers to fall in love with the same story we fell in love with as teenagers, the best way to do that is to reach them where they are," Sutherland said.

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 15/05/2026

He used a whole white power symbol and they scooped it right up

A photo posted by the White House using an image from Drake's new Iceman album of a hand wearing a sparkly silver glove, giving the "OK" sign. The White House altered the original image and added a chunky chain pinched between the thumb and forefinger with a MAGA pendant hanging down. The caption they wrote above the image is ICED OUT.

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 07/05/2026

He’s got neoprene footies to keep the ointment on 😭😭

A penguin standing with neoprene footies on his feet. The tops are black and they are in the shape of his flippers

A penguin swimming on his belly showing the green bottoms of the neoprene footies on his feet. They are in the shape of his flippers

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 07/05/2026

This is the actual job I want someday, being Scuba Susan doing education and aquarium upkeep

2 scuba divers in a large tank surrounded by fish and turtles. They’re talking to an audience of young students

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 03/05/2026

If you see this, post a concert photo you took

Missy Elliott on stage in an elaborate black outfit. It’s hard to describe but her sleeves have many seams and folds all over them and are inflated with air. Each one looks almost like a piece of giant black popcorn. There are dark colored gems all over the fabric on her shoulders, torso and hips and on her tight fitting black cap. A large piece of silver fabric billows around and behind her. She has big black goggles on her face. She’s singing into a mic with a very shiny silver handle.

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 18/04/2026

In Zone 7 it’s peak Virginia Bluebell season (not my photo)

Photo of a Virgina Bluebell plant. They look like 3 purple upside down bells or trumpets with small pink buds among them. They are all attached to bright green leaves.

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 14/04/2026

We were undeserving of equality in their eyes, and much of the proof of our violent oppression disappeared from their television screens (apparently that's what they need to see us as human and entitled to rights)

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Jet Magazine cover from July 5, 1993

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New Report Reveals Young Whites Are More Biased Against Blacks Than Older Whites Are
Despite gains made in race relations over the past three decades, today's young Whites are just as biased against Blacks-or even more so-than older Whites, according to the findings of a national survey.
The Survey on Racial Attitudes in America, conducted for the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) by the Boston-based
polling firm of Marttila & Kiley Inc., polled 800 Americans at random. The canvass, with a margin of error of 3 percent plus or minus, found among the most prejudiced Americans, 31 percent were under 30 years old, 23 percent were "baby boomers" between the ages of 30 and 49 and 35 percent were 50 and over. Abraham H. Foxman, ADL national director, told JET in a telephone interview, the survey results were disturbing because they indicate "the young are already prejudiced and what's more
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troubling is some are even more bigoted and more racist than their
parents or grandparents." Foxman had a couple of theories as to why there is widespread racial hatred of Blacks among young Whites, which outweighs that of the generation before them and is akin to the bias of older racists who supported institutionalized segregation in housing, schools and other public facilities.
Foxman said viewing our nation as separate cultures rather than a "melting pot" has caused division among the races. "While benign and positive, our multicultural and multiracial society has caused separation and it separating provided a rationale to buttress racism"
Another factor that has fostered racism among the nation's young adults is "unlike the baby boomers, they don't have part of their memory, consciousness or the visuals of the results of racism and bigotry, the result of segregation," Foxman began. "They don't
have as part of their memory visions of Black men and women being hosed down in the streets of Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, they don't have the visuals of the sit-ins at lunch counters or dogs being set on people just because they wanted an education," he added.

Continuing, Foxman pointed out, "They do not have in their memories the voices of Martin Luther King and his moral message or the voice
of Robert F. Kennedy. The baby boomers do." He noted, however, "I'm not saying they (baby boomers" are free of prejudice, but those
experiences are so etched in their consciences they serve as a sort of antidote to racism"
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Youth Never Saw Results Of Country's Racism
"We assume because we remember where we were when King was assassinated and Robert Kennedy was assassinated and the March On Washington, that they will too. But we did not pass that on in our genes," Foxman said. "We cannot assume because we witnessed the ugliness of hate, racism and bigotry, they
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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 13/04/2026

🚨🚨 BEST NEWS: HB 301 was just signed into law by Gov. Spanberger, giving VA-born adopted people age 18+ the right to access their original birth certificate!!!! The law will take effect on July 1, 2026 and you can contact the VA Dept of Health - Office of Vital Records for more details.

Screenshot of Bill Summary for HB 301 in Legislative Information System (LIS)

2026 Regular Session
HB301
Status: Approved
Adult adoptees; access to vital records.
Patrons| All Patrons V
Introduced by: Katrina Callsen (Chief Patron)
Summary As Passed | All Summaries V
Adult adoptees; access to vital records. Requires the State Registrar to provide adult adoptees access to their birth certificate upon request, provided that the requester submits an application, proof of identification, and payment and that the original birth certificate is not the certificate of birth in use, subject to amendment, or used by an individual for legal purposes. The bill directs the State Registrar to make a contact preference form available to birth parents that allows them to indicate their preference for contact by the adopted person, to be stored with the adopted person's birth certificate and provided upon the adopted person's request for the birth certificate. This bill incorporates HB 664.

4/13/2026 Governor Approved by Governor-Chapter 587 (effective 7/1/2026)
3/14/2026 Governor Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
3/14/2026 House l
Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 14, 2026
Enrolled PDF
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB301)]
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3/12/2026 House
Signed by Speaker
3/11/2026 Senate l
Signed by President

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 19/03/2026

There are two kinds of people: Cyndi fans and Madonna fans I wore this album out

Cover of Cyndi Lauper’s first album SHE’S SO UNUSUAL. Cyndi is wearing a red dress, fishnet stockings and dancing barefoot on a sidewalk while carrying a bouquet of yellow flowers.

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 11/03/2026

If you haven't already, you need to read this book

RELINQUISHED: THE POLITICS OF ADOPTION AND THE PRIVILEGE OF AMERICAN MOTHERHOOD by Gretchen Sisson

"Dares to to imagine a different world where Americans treat adoption like the justice issue it is." - Washington Post

Paperback Edition available March 17

Best Nonfiction Finalist from National Book Critics Circle
William J. Goode Book Award from American Sociological Association
Adele Clark Book Award from ReproNetwork

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 09/03/2026

I know most of these episodes just from one screenshot 🫠

Scene from Night Court where Mac the clerk is consoling a distraught Bull the bailiff. Bull’s ventriloquist dummy met an untimely demise because he was very annoying. The text says “He was only a sapling!”

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