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@ceil-emilia.bsky.social
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A corporate character designer, a gardener, a writer of sci-fi and spec fic and somehow an optimist. Free Palestine!

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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
We're all frogs in the boiling pot distracting ourselves to death while those in power build dystopian panopticons.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/03/2026
I know people are very sensitive about the use of the word “genocide” but the attempts to medically eliminate trans children is very clearly meets the standard because they are trying to eliminate a population and also they know some of those kids are going to kill themselves
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 03/03/2026
This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — Assigned
A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 26/02/2026
Many news outlets are reporting that some trans Kansans received letters warning that their licenses were being invalidated overnight. This morning, Evan Urquhart spoke with a trans woman who found out on Bluesky that it would be illegal to drive her car. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Her License Was Invalidated For Being Trans — Assigned
“I wish I could convey to them that the people they’re hurting are real human beings,” says Juniper, 24, of Witchita Kansas.
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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
youtu.be/9M_dq_0ljsc?... Glad to see her on a mainstream network. Such an important conversation today.
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Clara Mattei: capitalism is not natural - it’s enforced
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
In the 5 months since I wrote this, things have only gotten worse, with adults stripped of their healthcare at a moment's notice, universities firing teachers & banning the mere mention of trans people, & Democrats helping pass further bans and the first discrimination & segregation laws since 1996.
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the moon report 🌗 @seachanger.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
message from MN
From a Comrade
19h. C
One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin
Cities right now is that even the most long term
organizers who've been here for decades can't keep
track of all the resistance that is going on. There are
so many self-organized crews just doing work that in
any conversation with someone from another
neighborhood you might stumble over a whole
collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think
of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around
fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers
taking cars of detained people away for free. People
delivering food to families in hiding. So many local
rapid response groups that the number is uncertain
but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds-
especially when one considers that several
immigrant communities have their own non-English
rapid response networks usually uncounted in the
main English-language directories. People standing
watch outside daycares and schools.
This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative
and leadership, so many layers of self-organization,
that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to
repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or
movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of
course, that's built up through many years and
decades of organization, and not only through
explicitiv political campaigns or formations built
during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also
built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building,
workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic
relationship building among neighbors and
coworkers here.From a Comrade
19h. C
One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin
Cities right now is that even the most long term
organizers who've been here for decades can't keep
track of all the resistance that is going on. There are
so many self-organized crews just doing work that in
any conversation with someone from another
neighborhood you might stumble over a whole
collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think
of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around
fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers
taking cars of detained people away for free. People
delivering food to families in hiding. So many local
rapid response groups that the number is uncertain
but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds-
especially when one considers that several
immigrant communities have their own non-English
rapid response networks usually uncounted in the
main English-language directories. People standing
watch outside daycares and schools.
This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative
and leadership, so many layers of self-organization,
that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to
repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or
movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of
course, that's built up through many years and
decades of organization, and not only through
explicitiv political campaigns or formations built
during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also
built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building,
workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic
relationship building among neighbors and
coworkers here.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Yup, get rid of the whole rotten apparatus. Rip it out from the ground up.
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#bosswitch @joamettegil.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I have some thoughts on the "stop calling them Nazis, it deflects America's own violent, supremacist nature onto the Germans, who were just copying us anyway" discourse. (1/?)
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I interviewed two of the mods of r/Minneapolis about their tireless work this month: “I just wanted a local subreddit to know what was happening in my city, and now all of a sudden, we’ve turned into this de facto hub of information for basically how to fight fascism.” www.wired.com/story/reddit...
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Redditors Are Mounting a Resistance Against ICE
A user from r/Minneapolis was among the first to share footage of federal agents shooting Alex Pretti. Following his death, subreddits about football, cats, and embroidery have all rallied against ICE...
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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
‘Immensely Invisible:’ Women Fighting ICE’s Inaction on Sexual Abuses - Futuro Investigates share.google/35lruBfeseTX... The report is a few years old. If it was a lawless agency back then with no oversight what do you think it's like now? #abolishICE
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‘Immensely Invisible:’ Women Fighting ICE’s Inaction on Sexual Abuses - Futuro Investigates
When 23-year-old Mari walked out of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention in 2022, she felt invisible. It was barely a month after she had entered the United States as ...
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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Crazy it feels like that we'll be at war with NATO in less than 2 weeks and still have to go to work 💀. An insane fascist at the wheel of an Empire with basically unchecked power has to be one of the worst timelines. I didn't even have this on my bingo card.
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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
From "Frieren" Season 2 ending, animated with colored pencils by Mimei Aoume (she had already worked on Season 1 ending). www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY4B... www.instagram.com/mimei_a
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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
With our world mired in seemingly endless tragedy it's the least we can do to help where we can. chuffed.org/project/1640...
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Helping the people
Help us protect displaced children and restore their childhood
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
americans, please: do not take the bait by resisting ICE yourselves. just give the democrats $20. they will give it to ICE so they can train more guys
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/01/2026
Hannity has a Fox reporter in Minneapolis talk to a random protester walking through the city who goes on to spit bars for 2 minutes
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
US protesters shot fireworks at the hotel where ICE agents are staying at in Minneapolis. They also played loud music and banged on windows. #ReneeNicoleGood #ReneeGood #3E #EndImpunity
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Emily Heller lives near 33rd and Portland and said she woke up to a commotion outside her home. She said she saw a car blocking traffic on Portland Avenue that appeared to be part of a protest against federal law enforcement operations.

Heller said she heard ICE agents telling the driver, a woman, to “get out of here.”

“She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” Heller said.

Heller said it appeared the woman then accelerated and traveled about 100 feet before striking a utility pole and some other vehicles. She could be seen slumped over inside her car.
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🎃🧙 Mrs (Apple) Bobber 🧙🎃 @mrsbobhere.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Oh my. What a relief!! 🥰🥰🥰
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Olfos @olfos.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Burning Petals🌹 #expedition33 #clairobscur
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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I have to imagine that YouTube's algo suppresses this channel. Despite the quality of it. A great listen if you're wondering why everyone is sick. youtu.be/BXZu39LWgm0?...
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More Food, More Hunger: How Capitalism Turned Food Against Us
YouTube video by FREE – Forum for Real Economic Emancipation
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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
"AVVIES" AWARD WINNERS THREAD. Woe be upon the winners! ❤️ Watch live 👇 www.twitch.tv/UVW_CWA
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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Going to a local community action meeting tonight. Hoping that it actually helps connect because I could really use a community that is actively doing things together. Missing that hard rn.
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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
What's not reported is as important as what is. This didn't fit the corpo media's narrative, just like dozens of other issues.
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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Sometimes I wish I had just wrote my first draft of my first book and moved on to others, rather than committing to endless rewrites and editing. It's too good to abandon I guess 😅
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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Will they? Probably not. But it's one of the best moves for a party that will refuse affirmative policies. They have to be able to agree that pedophiles do not belong in power.
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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
www.authoritarian-stack.info Scary read.
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The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Guess it's time for a general strike
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I'm like 65% certain this caving by the Democrats is because of the Airlines. They've been on corporate welfare for a long time now and they didn't want their 4th quarter to look bad, so they bribed a few selfish cowards, who knows were strategically selected and not up for election next year...
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 07/11/2025
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I went to Japan for the first time this past May and I snapped this pic at the top of the Tokyo Sky tree. I'm honestly floored at how perfect it is. #tokyo #photography
Tokyo at sunset in late spring where the sun blocked by the clouds paints a city street with a glimmer of light
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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Remember even when it feels like everything is breaking apart. When society feels insane. When you struggle to afford life's necessities. Remember that it's all by design. Other people have set us up to parasitize the abundance we produce. The system isn't broken. It's working perfectly.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.
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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Protesting is great. But it doesn't really do anything without an economic component. Remember the economy is inherently and inextricably political.
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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Writing a short story for a comp with the theme "Predictions for the year ahead" and I was like how am I going to write anything that's not political. Thousand words in, it's entirely political, but some part of me wonders if I should self censor rather than submit it, or write something else...
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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Finally got to writing about politics for once. alexiswaters.medium.com/dreaming-a-n...
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Dreaming A New Dream
In our day and age we need to reckon with the need for a new Dreto chart a way to a future that empowers everyone to live a fulfilling…
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Writer's Block @writersblockds.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Six days left until our August Competition ends--the theme is "Resistance." The challenge is to write a short story in 1000 words or under. It's friendly--the winner gets bragging rights and chooses the next theme! If you're up for it, come join us below! #writingcommunity #amwriting #writesky
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Join the Writer's Block Discord Server!
Writer's Block is an on-topic writing server that focuses on fiction, including fanfiction, short stories, novels, scripts, and screenplays. | 849 members
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Writer's Block @writersblockds.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Today's birthday activity in the Discord is... ...share a gif that best summarizes your story! So, let's see 'em, Bluesky! What gifs have you got? 👀 #writingcommunity #amwriting #writesky
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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Weekly Doodle during work down time.
A sketch of three surrealist pillars topped with different scenes of nature and humans amidst a field of fire.
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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It honestly feels impossible to have suddenly lost one of my cats. His sister is distressed and it breaks my heart. He was my baby. Rip 😭
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AUG!! @itsaug.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Item #: Entity 1105 Object Class: Corruption Special Containment Procedures: Subject has not yet been detained. Its skin is a sickly, mottled gray, covered in jagged, angular markings that constantly shift and pulse like corrupted data. #1stLinePit #WIP #YA #H #P #T
Mood board for Glitch! In Reality. This moodboard consists of spooky forest imagery, monsters from the shadows, werewolves, evidence tapes, files, someone wearing combat gear with lasers, and a mostly green, brown and black color scheme.
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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Reflections in Rapture Hook: When chatGPT aliens invade earth in 1862 to harvest creativity In Heaven there is no sound. No wind. No voices. No music. Only you standing upon the bridge between the Stasis Spire and the Infinite Garden, between your rest and duty. #1stLinePit #WIP #SF #A
In Heaven there is no sound. No wind. No voices. No music. Only you standing upon the bridge between the Stasis Spire and the Infinite Garden, between your rest and duty. They cast umbral shadow to carpet the clouds below but with your synthetic eyes  you can zoom in to pick out your shadow, a thin stitch of black in the midst of white cloth clouds and behemoth monoliths of stone. Above the fabric is a deep unreal blue and black of space, stars appearing in the gradient between. This bridge is an omen. As this place—this five kilometer long bridge—is the only place you know freedom, or rather the possibility of it. The plate teetering on the edge of the table, the space between each artist’s stroke, the hand on a door pushing, if you didn’t open the door, draw the stroke or still the plate you’d die. Your purpose can’t be ignored.

The bridge is split down the middle by a canal snaking through it to feed the endless waterfall that mark the entrance from the City thousands of meters below. You’re alone. The bridge at other times filled with shepherds and attendants but this late in the rotation so few humans remain in the Infinite Garden. Sometimes, a feeling you can’t identify blows through you like the gentle caress of hair from a lover. It defies explanation yet you pause at it and find yourself looking at the glassy water, unable to continue to move, trapped in the moment of transition.
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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I think finding/making time to write my novels is my new project. Why is it so hard 😭 #amwriting #writingcommunity
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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
What's the difference between an idea person and someone with vision? 🤔
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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The Midwest has some nice skies and sunsets
A reflection of the sunset above a pondA sunset in IowaA tree standing against a stark sunset 🌇
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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I think after my current project, I'm done with authoritarian oligarchies, despots, dystopias, cyberpunk corpos. It easy to imagine things being worse...but how about better? Not utopia fiction, but an evolution of our current moment on a better track 🤔💐🌻 #writingcommunity #solarpunk
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Mallorie Malcontent ✨ @sweetbeanscomix.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Contrary to popular opinion...
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Emilia @ceil-emilia.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
It's the only leverage we really have. #GeneralStrike
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