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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/05/2026

i love her make her president

A 10-year-old brown girl in a pink t-shirt points an arm back at the cowardly masked guards at Delaney Hall and says into a journalist’s microphone: They wanted to work here. Then show your face!

The same girl shrugs and looks at the camera after saying: Why are you so scared?

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Anna Zand @annazand.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Working late but taking a break to make my kids watch this clip again youtu.be/2LhtNEmNkuY?...

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Bring On The Beautiful Girls – Lucille Ball | Ziegfeld Follies | Warner Archive

YouTube video by Warner Bros. Classics

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Matt Baucco @mbaucco.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

For Terry Pratchett day, you are supposed to post a quote or a book of his. This one is the one that always gets me right in the feels:

“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

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Ava Dahl (they/it) @avadahl.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Ah yes, AI the great equalizer…. Making everyone who uses it look equally unqualified to sell me shit.

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 08/03/2026

It’s cool that this generation gets to find out the answer to “what would you have done when we started interning the Japanese?” and “what would you have done when we invaded Vietnam?” and “what would you have done in Watergate?” all at the same time.

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Ava Dahl (they/it) @avadahl.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I’m going to need some help understanding the following two statements: “Community built on performance feels cohesive. Community built on congruence feels safe.” Anyone?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

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ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner

Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

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Ava Dahl (they/it) @avadahl.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I just added this book to my collection and just reading the introduction to the Watch & Ward Society had me flipping tables. There really are no new cons; just reinvented ones.

A photo of a page from “Banned in Boston: The Watch and Ward Society’s Crusade against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil” by Neil Miller which reads:
“Then Mencken, hat low on his head and trademark cigar in hand, accompanied by Hays and followed by several hundred onlookers, was marched up Tremont Street to police headquarters at Pemberton Square, four blocks away. He was led to the second floor and booked on a charge of violating Chapter 272, Section 28, of the Public General Laws of Mas-sachusetts. The charge was clear—that he, Mencken, "did sell to one Jason F. Chase certain obscene, indecent, and impure printing ... manifestly tending to corrupt the morals of youth." After that, Mencken was taken to the Central Municipal Court and formally arraigned. A hearing was set for 1o a.m. the following day, April 6. Mencken was released on his own recognizance, with a surety bond fixed at $500.
Chase had won round one.”

A photo of the cover of a paperback book titled “Banned in Boston: The Watch and Ward Society’s Crusade against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil” by Neil Miller.
The cover features vintage black and white photographs, the main one being a photo of Sally Keith, Queen of the Tassels.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

A liberal is someone who opposes every moral panic except the current one

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Kalil @kalilchernov.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

A fundamental (and gallingly simple to answer) question that society continues to grapple with: Are children people or property? Terry Pratchett's quote about the definition of 'sin' remains evergreen...

“There’s no greys, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.’
‘It’s a lot more complicated than that -’
‘No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”

- Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

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Gay Bitterskeets @gaybitterskeets.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

One of the best things you can do to fight fascism is to openly have fun being weird.

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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 01/08/2024

if they take the bait, they will get pulled increasingly into rightwing extremism. the amount of overlap between many transphobe orgs & neonazi hate groups is well documented. If you value “feeling correct” more than you value truth & empathy, you will eventually wind up as a rightwinger. 4/x

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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 01/08/2024

JK Rowling attacking women athletes from both Algeria and Taiwan is disgusting, but it unfortunately should not be a surprise given her history of racism. Transphobia as an ideology is frequently fueled by white supremacy & colonialist notions of European femininity.

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Ava Dahl (they/it) @avadahl.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I’m *SO* glad we don’t live in a socialist hellscape where it’s impossible to get the care you need y’all! I mean imagine if it took literally 14 phone calls in order to get one prescription filled!— OHWAIT no that’s exactly what happened to me under capitalism 🙃🙃🙃

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Ava Dahl (they/it) @avadahl.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Gosh if ONLY there was a way to name and then ultimately dismantle these systems the seem to oppress people en mass…. Oh well I guess it will just remain this mysterious force we can’t possibly fathom even with decades of study and lived experience 🙃

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/02/2026

I have really come to believe that we'd be in a much better place right now if we had put Nixon away in a dingy cell for the rest of his natural life, instead of the slap on the wrist for being naughty that he actually received.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/02/2026

rich powerful white men in the US understandably DO believe that losing your job and having to see people say mean stuff about you on the Internet is the WORST POSSIBLE FATE THAT COULD EVER HAPPEN TO ANYONE because that has historically been the case for THEM. we must make them fear far worse.

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Ava Dahl (they/it) @avadahl.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Get you some fuckin whimsy, bruh. Bitches love whimsy.

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🌑 @fell.energy · 09/02/2026

it drives you insane how much erosion of freedom is justified by concern for kids when the people who actually hurt them will never face consequences

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

If you want to know what's going on in Minnesota, I recommend following & listening to Minnesotans. I recommend reading the articles we share. Believe us when we tell you what's happening. Check out stories from local outlets & this curated list of stories: www.standwithminnesota.com/stay-informed

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Stay Informed — Stand With Minnesota

Stay updated with local and independent news, firsthand reports, and curated links highlighting developments around Minnesota community defense efforts and immigration enforcement occurrences.

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

ITS FINE - dashare.zone ADMIN

ITS FINE TO LAUGH AT SOMEONE WHO THINK'S A MARKOV CHAT BOT IS SUPER INTELLIGENT, ITS OK TO MAKE FUN OF THE TENDENCY TO OFF LOAD ANY CRITICAL THINKING ONTO AN APP THAT IS GENERATING TEXT WITH NO INHERENT MEANING, ITS ACCEPTABLE TO FIND IT HUMOROUS THAT AN ENTIRE SEGMENT OF PEOPLE THINK THAT A SET OF D&D DICE REPLACES A SEARCH ENGINE, ITS ONE OF THE NICEST WAYS TO HANDLE THE SITUATION, THE WORLDS RICHEST PEOPLE DEVISED A WAY TO FORCE EVERY SKILLED WORKER OUT OF EMPLOYMENT AND TURN ALL ART INTO UNIFORM SLOP AND IF WE CAN LAUGH AT THEIR COLLABORATORS AT LEAST WE GET SOMETHING OUT OF THE DEAL - DA TEXT SAYS "ITS OK TO MAKE FUN OF AI USERS, THERE NOT ABLE TO READ WHAT YOU TYPED ANYWAY" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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🌾Killjoy 🇵🇸 @voidcircus.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The ads fucking suck. They're bleak as hell - AI and crypto shoved in our faces while Dunkin de-ages Jennifer Anniston and Liquod IV asks me about my piss.

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Allenk_81 @allenk81.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Lord forgive me, but it's time to go back to the old me: Trying to get dudes on the Internet to say "patriarchy" about the Epstein files:

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You Know, You Can Just Say "Patriarchy"

These analyses of the Epstein case are... missing something.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

A 2 panel sketch disgram of a 1 meter tall pod. in the second panel, an oval section pops off and a demonic little face with short tentacles flies out, crudely drawn.

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

"Being anti AI is class privilege! Poor people can't afford to learn how to make art without it!" Yes. Famously, all artists are extremely wealthy.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

ai will just never replace actual artists and anyone who says it will is a HUGE LOSER

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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 05/02/2026

it is impossible to convey how spiritually and emotionally devastating it is to know that other people do not consider you to be a real person with an interior (or exterior) life beyond them

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Melinda Adelman @melinda-adelman.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

it’s really the cherry on the shit sundae that all of these sexist gatekeepers are such tremendous dumbasses. just staggeringly stupid and lazy

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

How many opportunities did I lose because men I encountered or worked with did (or didn't) think of me as someone they could get in bed? What was the point of a reporter willing to cover an active warzone if they were still laid off after bad decisions made by the paper's senior managers and owner?

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

This is why I push back on AI hype so hard. So few people understand how the tech actually works. So when it speaks with authority - as it's been programmed to do - people believe it.

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Ava Dahl (they/it) @avadahl.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

RE: “the world is terrible, let people find joy in AI art. You can educate without being a jerk.” Nah, boo. People have BEEN educated. I’ve experienced firsthand the defensiveness and shittiness people generate by being told what they’re doing is harmful. Your comfort is not the priority right now.

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 04/02/2026

3️⃣/3️⃣ “It’s very important that websites have a memory and that the web overall has a memory,” said Alexander Rose of Automattic. “We are increasingly using the web as our only source of truth. When links go dead, in effect, the truth goes dead—especially in the age of AI.”

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

If you are going to do on the ground organizing, do not fuck with people who tell you that opsec is just some cute in-group status symbol thing. Not now. Not when there are paramilitaries murdering activists on the street and following observers to their homes. Jesus Christ.

the correct way to understand the protest opsec stuff is that its a shibboleth for guys who attend left wing protests regularly that lets them exert status over recruits. i would regard it as pretty benign if these people werent actively discouraging people from getting involved.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

These are not normal times and these are not normal cops and this is not a normal threat environment to say the least. Opsec matters right now in street work. Hit pause on your grudge against whoever it was in black bloc in 2014 that hurt your feelings, and get with the program.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/01/2026

Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists. Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews. All Black. All doing their jobs.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 30/01/2026

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

There have been many journalists arrested in the US before. I'm one of them. This is still very different. Lemon wasn't arrested as part of a mass of arrests of people surrounding a protest as it was happening and released (as I was). Lemon is being re-arrested for having covered a protest.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

along other potential outcomes, like DHS keeping a “derogatory” file on you, it sounds like your privileges will get quickly suspended. there’s a mention of this happening to a woman in NYT today.

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Shall I compare thee to a fucking jerk

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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

100%. I honestly believe political leaders ask too little of people. The thinking is you need an extraordinarily low bar - so ask people for money or to sign something. People want to be part of something and they're eager to do real meaningful work in defense of their community and their rights.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

We're not gonna win people who just want slavery back, and we shouldn't try. We should also not take our eye off the ball as long as they're still rounding up undoc'd people

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The right is not, in fact, a blind blob of stupid hate acting at random. The hatred has a funny way of being channeled into very specific policy objectives. That we totally miss bc we keep buying the bullshit about how this is a "culture war" & we "just have to work on messaging."

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Ava Dahl (they/it) @avadahl.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Do you ever see someone “speak their truth” about someone you know and have no idea who they are describing? There’s seeding the truth with lies to make it more believable; then there’s those whose stories make you wonder whether they are THAT dishonest with themselves or simply pathological.

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✨ Hamish Steele ✨ Go-Man Vs. the Star Dragon OUT NOW! @hamishsteele.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I want more fat people in sexy shows and not for inclusivity and representation or whatever, I want it because fat people are extremely sexy.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

i sold my antipsychotic meds to buy my ai girlfriend a new model upgrade for christmas. but then i found out she sold her data center to buy me a gun

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