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TYSM for all the support you've already given me. I find it so hard to feel deserving enough to even ask, and now that I have some of what I need I feel extra strange about asking for more. But if you can help with anything id truly appreciate you chuffed.org/project/2025...

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Support Vicky's FFS

I got a date for facial feminization surgery In October, which is very exciting! But October is coming fast, and as I'm currently unemployed, I didn't have nearly as much time to save for costs and re...

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Aristophon @aristophon.bsky.social · 20h

You learn useful skills with fraternities. At University of Texas at Austin in the 1960's and 1970's one learned how to judge the quality of tailoring of the Southern Plantation owners and Confederate Generals costumes worn at the "themed" frat parties. Spoiler alert: high end fabrics and tailoring.

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Deny, Defend, Depose (Carl Nyberg) @carlnyberg312.bsky.social · 6h

I'm so old, I remember when a good chunk of the Democratic Party establishment thought nominating Hillary Clinton was not a good idea.

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Deny, Defend, Depose (Carl Nyberg) @carlnyberg312.bsky.social · 6h

The "states rights" racists were always about the white supremacy.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 6h

Just having some people quietly in the gallery would mean a lot to me so she knows she's not alone. If this is something you're interested in, please email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com for details.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 6h

Chicagoland friends, I have a favor to ask. I have a pro bono client, a Black woman, who is currently facing charges for allegedly pointing a gun at her abusive ex - who admitted to raping her. I would love if there could be a show of support for her at her next few court dates.

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Aristophon @aristophon.bsky.social · 5h

Not to worry! Supreme Court justice Roger B. Taney II has got this!

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David Monroe @davidmonroe.bsky.social · 6h

🧵1/6 Speaking of the Blacklist: Did you know that simply “being against” Hitler in the US in the 1930s could land you on the blacklist in the 1950s? During the Cold War, opposing Nazis "too early" was a red flag for the McCarthyites.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 23h

A court deciding whether a plaintiff must litigate under her real name does not supply a public-interest justification for a commentator to broadcast where she lives.

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Aristophon @aristophon.bsky.social · 21h

First historical occurrence of FAFO.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22h

don't waste your life trying to pursue political or military greatness: way way more people in 2026 know who Ea-Nasir is than like, the guy who was the king of Ur when he was alive

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juli @julierthanyou.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I can't believe this is real. I genuinely tried so hard not to get my hopes up, and I think I overcorrected and now I'm slightly in shock, somehow there is this beautiful floofy kitten that lives here now. I feel so lucky😩❤️ Thanks @mspca-angell.bsky.social

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Aristophon @aristophon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

US Air Force personnel at RAF Fairford crying with joy at their deliverance from the evil bomb plot. Everyone wiping the tears of joy from their eyes and blowing their noses on the British flag.

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Cozca @cozca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is important to go to rallies and marches for networking and community awareness but it is not fighting back. It makes people feel like they are doing their part but it is just a launch pad for resistance, not the finish line.

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I haven't read the whole thing yet but this is actually a really fascinating and well-written document. And laser-targeted at all the liberals who are unfortunately too Islamophobic to actually read it.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Been fighting all month for an org that is critical to science education in this city, but don't forget to support my science education org too, eek! Get a calendar, t-shirt, stickers, and more at SquidFacts.net Or donate directly at givebutter.com/SupportSAS26

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 28/09/2026

Here we observe the Democratic politician in its natural habitat, a corporate fundrasier. If confronted by an enemy it will deploy its most effective (and only) defense, Playing Dead

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, as I’ve reminded people many times before, cat eyes don’t work like human eyes do. Tuned for different wavelengths, different shaped pupils, and different density of receptors on the retina. The laser classifications are for your eyes. Lasers aren’t toys. Never have been. Not even for pets.

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Aristophon @aristophon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hell at 3a.m. in the kitchen *crash!* *thud* *crash!* *crash!*

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

100 subs away from 60k! Are you 🫵 subscribed to Tribunate, YouTube’s number one AI-free channel covering Rome from a left wing perspective? youtube.com/@tribunatespqr

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 28/09/2026

10/10, can confirm that if you're funny, kind, hygienic, have good politics (which is LITERALLY being a Socialist/Communist), you ain't a creep, you can cook, and you also know some magic tricks, the babes wouldn't mind hanging out with you, and also saying yes to you asking them out on dates.

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Aristophon @aristophon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Closing scene: U.S. Sgt. Fumblefingers, crying with relief, dabbing his eyes with the British flag held in one hand with the detonating fuze to a 4000 pound bomb in the other. *Camera pulls back showing weapons bunker filled with enough nukes to convert an English county to a mile deep crater.*

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Aristophon @aristophon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New movie pitch: "The gang who couldn't successfully, illegally dump broken furniture and that old sofa the dog peed on forty times in the Fairford woods, without the cops busting them, mounts a 'Terrorist' attack on a British Air Force base"

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Why is the United States still treating a Saudi-based council as the legitimate government of Yemen, while refusing to recognize the government that actually controls the capital and governs most of the country’s population?" znetwork.org/znetarticle/...

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The Urgency of Recognizing the Ansar Allah Government in Yemen

The Trump administration came perilously close to launching another bombing campaign against Yemen this weekend. According to a September 20 New York

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RadiantHostility (he/him) @radianthostility.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

People younger than Russian Federation having exactly the same beliefs about the USSR as Allan Dulles is never gonna stop being pathetic.

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A warning from New Yorker cartoonist John McNamee.

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's a shame that Jeffrey Epstein died before we could have fixed everything by asking him to write a short essay saying he was sorry.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What you are being asked to believe is that there is something *inherently illegitimate* - something sinister, savage, underhanded, unfair, even inhuman - about anyone doing to us, or the people or property or resources we control - what we routinely do to them. That fighting back is *cheating*.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please help if you can! Queen City Cat Lounge is an adoption center I visit frequently here in Vermont and their window was vandalized last night. Fortunately they had double glass for the cats' safety, but the broken outer window needs to be fixed ASAP. www.gofundme.com/f/repair-and...

Poster with a black and white screenshot of security footage showing a man peering into the front window of a cat adoption center. Text says "please help Queen City cat lounge recover. last night someone broke the window at Queen City cat lounge - an adoption center that has placed hundreds of cats in loving homes. the cats are all safe but the window needs to be replaced quickly!"

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Despite what the Right-Wing say, high taxes on Corporations are not always bad for America.

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Aristophon @aristophon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And American military officers were directly on the battlefield, instructing Saddam's army on how to use and employ them.

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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Visitors frequently remarked on the scale of local textile industries, and the quality of West African cotton cloths, which ‘far excel the prints and homespuns of Manchester’ and survived the onslaught of cheap industrial imports. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-textil...

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The Textile Industry of pre-colonial Southern Nigeria (c.1500-1900)

From Yorubaland and Benin to Nupe and Igboland.

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Aristophon @aristophon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Best part of the series "Berlin Babylon" is when Soviet Embassy diplomats move in, tommy guns blazing, to wipe out a building full of Russian counter revolutionaries in Berlin. Putin's big failure was to have *not* had the Russian embassy in Belgium do it to Brussels NATO headquarters in 2022.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every single news story about generative AI discovering something ends up being "someone foolishly fed their work into the machine that plagiarizes people's work and then got shocked when it regurgitated exactly what they were working on"

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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'It's because they're racist' yes that's my point, they're trying to emulate the British ruling classes of the 1800s

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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I always assumed the reason American universities have fraternities is because they think it looks old worldy and fancy, even though we don't have them in the UK, apart from one or two extremely weird groups like the bullingdon club (Obv the reality of a frat is not at all fancy, I know)

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

But an increasing proportion of arrests have been made by local law enforcement in partnership with ICE, via 287(g) agreements. In many regions, it can be difficult to know when local officers are conducting routine policework or immigration enforcement. In many cases, they are doing both.

A chart showing immigration arrests by local police, which have increased steadily since ICE's new enforcement strategy began in April 2026, reaching its highest amount above 200 arrests per day in late June 2026.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

For every arrest that breaks through into public view, countless others happen quickly, before anyone can notice. Now ICE is anywhere and everywhere, embedded in all corners of everyday life.

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Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever

After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere

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Aristophon @aristophon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not one single lie detected. Been there, done that and have lived with shame ever since.

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

new research reports that cats vocalize more when greeting male owners. researchers suggest that this is because cats have apparently learned that men require additional explanation when provided with basic communication. I don't like the idea that cats are judging me this accurately.

Freya, a fluffy gray cat, sits on a light blue table, staring downward with a serious, slightly concerned expression.

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Sam Antics @dsoart.com · 28/09/2026

Garffeld Pt 15

3 panel Garffeld comic: panels 1 and 2, Nergal is sitting next to Garffeld who thinks, "Nergal thinks himself a comely cat; a picture of vanity. I hate vanity."; panel 3, Nergal thinks, "Envy is no less a sin deserving of hate in the eyes of God."

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