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burnlittlelight (she/her)

@burnlittlelight.bsky.social
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Community care, monster theology, narrative power, hope in the dark. Any opinions I express here are mine, and don't express the views of the organizations I work with and for.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/10/2026
The "antisemitism isn't systemic" argument falls apart when you grasp the security costs borne by American Jews in just about every aspect of communal life. Nazis walking into synagogues with AR-15s are animated by the same Great Replacement Theory espoused by our Christian nationalist electeds.
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 02/10/2026
the long shadow of the war on terror
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026
my dude you flew a stop the steal flag outside your house
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“The profound moral question is not, 'Do they deserve to die?' but 'Do we deserve to kill them?'" - Sister Helen Prejean
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 01/10/2026
it's really crazy because survivors doing story-sharing was meant as an organizing and community building tactic but in the digital era it's just grist for the media and/or harassment mill
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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today's reminder that transformative justice is a Black- and Brown-led, abolitionist, survivor-led movement to transform the conditions that lead to interpersonal violence. This book is a great overview of the movement: bookshop.org/p/books/beyo...
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Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at the grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. Community-based approaches to preventing crime and rep...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
Oh hey look: exactly what a bunch of us said was already and would keep happening— data centers being placed in spaces where their harms will fall on those already most marginalized— is, in fact, happening.
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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I spent the first 10 - 15 years of my life as a writer publicly unpacking my sexual assault trauma in order to convince people rape was a big deal and they should care about it, only to find they can just go "nuh-uh" and go on about their horrible business. So, my love to others who can't Discourse.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
Yesterday I tried to fast track my bill to ban data center development on public lands, like this one in Oregon. Republicans blocked it. In case there was any doubt, it’s clear Republicans are all in on Trump’s plan to hijack your public lands for data centers.
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Data centers proposed on federal land in eastern Oregon, western states • Oregon Capital Chronicle
A data center proposed on BLM land near Hermiston would be the first on federal public land in Oregon, one of dozen proposed in six western states.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That's where I've been for a while. We can't even reach questions about the death penalty itself because we fail essential predicates such as "fair and consistent criminal justice system" and "reliable death penalty verdicts that leave no reasonable doubt" and, as shown tonight, "humane execution."
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✨‧₊˚ meh (but spooky) ˚₊‧✨ @ericgerhardt.com · 01/10/2026
Again and again we need to say it. Have you ever wondered what you would have been doing in Germany in the 30s, how you would have responded to the rise of fascism and seeing innocent people under dire threat? You're doing it now. This nurse understood that and she rose to meet the moment. ❤️✊
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It has always been about the racism and the segregation and as mad as I am at the fascists I’m mad at the people who enable the fascists, who forgive the enablers, and who help them erase and reform history Because they refuse to say “My bad yall”
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letithappenalreadymama @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i honestly never imagined that we would have to do take back the night again
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026
To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states
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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oakland: "You have to want to live here, you don’t just show up here." This is spectacular, sharp and true. Oakland and San Francisco have never felt more different than they do today. For every problem the East Bay has, it five times as much community and humanity. The vibes here are alive.
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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
CPTSD is not primarily about what happened to us. It's about how what happened to us turned us into someone we didn't choose. The "just get over it" people don't understand that. We don't "just get over" who we've become. We have to recondition, rewire, reshape ourselves.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I spoke your true name. It's not what I thought it would be. And I don't feel easy about it. As if I'd left something unfinished. But it is your name. If it betrays you, then that's the truth of it.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.
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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the fight for abortion rights is the fight for trans rights is the fight for foundational bodily autonomy for all of us. every issue is a queer issue and if you haven't realized this yet, don't worry. they'll show you.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Talmud is dudes in 4th c. whats-now-Iraq nerding out about Torah, + some intern takes notes in the study hall sometimes they fight abt whether or not you accidentally making a furrow in dirt when you drag a bench is Shabbat-prohibited "farming" sometimes they make wang jokes like, chill
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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jenny Holzer Painted sign 1981 "Living" series, 1980-82
all-caps red text on a white background, reminiscent of a warning sign. The text reads:
YOU CAN WATCH PEOPLE ALIGN THEMSELVES WHEN TROUBLE IS IN THE AIR. SOME PREFER TO BE CLOSE TO THOSE AT THE TOP AND OTHERS WANT TO BE CLOSE TO THOSE AT THE BOTTOM. IT'S A QUESTION OF WHO FRIGHTENS THEM MORE AND WHOM THEY WANT TO BE LIKE.
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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A censorship battle is emerging in U.S. libraries and the internet. Arkansas librarians can face jail time over books deemed “harmful to minors,” while the SCREEN Act would impose verification across the web. Project 2025 laid the groundwork, aiming to control what Americans watch and access.
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Project 2025 Is Winning Its War on ‘Porn’ - and the Definition Covers LGBTQ+ Books and the Open Internet
Across libraries, schools and the internet, a broader censorship campaign is taking shape. In Arkansas, librarians now face potential jail time over books deemed “harmful to minors,” while a Senate bi...
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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Cybel Martin ASC @cybeldp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is terrific. As old Hollywood crumbles, but I’ve been waiting for signs of what the new and improved studio system will be. Read the whole article. #AnarchistsUnited variety.com/2026/film/fe...
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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’
‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is what was better than “woke”
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jadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the arts have been recalled due to salmonella
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.
Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trickledown Depp-onomics
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Save Women's Sports, an anti-trans organization whose entire existence is built around ferreting out trans athletes who want to run rougshod over your cisgender girl could only find 5 athletes competing K-12. Five.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The rape and pedophile party specifically use transphobia as a wedge to make *all* their intended victims more vulnerable, and Jeff Epstein literally advised them in many, many, many barely literate emails to do this.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We desperately need a truth and reconciliation commission. It’s not simply about accountability, which may be stymied by Trump pardons. It’s about fully understanding and processing how far we fell as a nation, accepting that we put our faith in the wrong people, and knowing to never do it again.
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joe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple
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jadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
quite sure that's actually also how you radicalize people, to begin with. i don't know why it works, but for some reason people will assess the conclusions of an argument critically, but not its premises. so you can get ppl to believe dire shit by putting it in the premises instead the conclusions
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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
a very common phenomenon is people rejecting the conclusions of propaganda, but accepting the premises. you can passionately disagree about how the trans problem should be handled, and it will still keep you from asking "what do you mean, 'trans problem?'"
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 28/09/2026
The "social contagion" thing drives me screaming angry. When I was young I had no clue trans ppl existed. I'd never met anyone trans. I saw cruel caricatures in pop culture occasionally. When I realized trans was a thing someone could be, it hit like a lightning bolt. My life felt newly possible.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The people yearn for nuance and precision, I tell myself confidently as I log on for the day
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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026
There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026
You don't have an inalienable right to be an antisocial dipshit because you're doomscrolling all day and it makes you feel terrible. There are no qualifiers to this. You are not released from the obligation to try to be decent just because Elon Musk is lighting the world on fire.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As the midterms approach, I want to remind folks that pandemics have historically given rise to fascism The fear associated with death and disability on a massive scale makes it easier for authoritarians to seize power Vote accordingly Protect disabled & marginalized people. Get them to the polls
politico.com
Fed study ties 1918 flu pandemic to Nazi Party gains
The paper examined municipal spending levels and voter extremism in Germany from the time of the initial influenza outbreak until 1933.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 26/09/2026
We're not letting up! Join us on Thursday, October 1st at 430pm at 525 E 68th St. We are picketing New York Presbyterian, which has also ended care for trans youth, and is likely speaking to the DOJ about a settlement too. Join us! 🏳️‍⚧️🪧
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Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Refugees from the right are welcome, but not at the lectern. Go stack chairs. This isn't the next phase of your career. The next phase of your career doesn't involve a camera or mic.
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J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
This has fucked me up more than once. If you have a coconut allergy, you NEED to be careful about anything with “activated charcoal” anywhere near the label.
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Josephus Brown @josephusbrown.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026
what if your skinner box was in your pocket at all times
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 27/09/2026
Indeed Berkeley and the Bay Area have been fertile soil for new spiritual movements since the 1960s. The TESCREAL religions represent the partial capture of this fertility by tech billionaires.
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026
demi lovato get a job/stay away from her ig meme
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Variety interviews an AI skin but do they interview this great frog in my garden? They do not. The frog says she would like to work with Christopher Walken and Florence Pugh. Print it!
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