Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Questions my 2 year old asked today: - Do you know the truth (asked unprompted and out of nowhere) - Where does the future come from? - What caused the big bang? 000
Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026This is a profound loss. I am so lucky to have known and learned from Emi. ❤️🩹 010
Reposted by Chris Ash (they/them)derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/04/2026first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note 667391196979
Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 11/04/2026I’m going to need all these buskers to either coordinate and start a band or take turns because the sensory overload of multiple competing songs in one location is a lot. 121
Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Original post: bsky.app/profile/did:...bsky.app@kattenbarge.bsky.social on Bluesky“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age 000
Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 09/04/2026bsky.app@adamserwer.bsky.social on BlueskyWhy'd the Confederates fight? They told us 000
Reposted by Chris Ash (they/them)Mitildide 🧌 @mitildide.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Les transphobes : et si je m'identifie à un hélicoptère de combat ? ptdrrrrrrrrrrr Les transphobes : Les pronoms de l'hélicoptère de combat sont il/lui 723042
Reposted by Chris Ash (they/them)Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...nytimes.comThe Transformative Power of the White ‘Race Traitor’ 252302782
Reposted by Chris Ash (they/them)Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 03/02/2026It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize this was a training ad for therapists to support clients with feelings of emptiness and not just capitalist “self help” propaganda to keep the labor gears turning during global collapse. 011
Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 03/02/2026It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize this was a training ad for therapists to support clients with feelings of emptiness and not just capitalist “self help” propaganda to keep the labor gears turning during global collapse. 011
Reposted by Chris Ash (they/them)Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 08/01/2026Everything happening now has a precedent. This is not new. Please understand that everything happening now is very American. The only change is that it is happening on camera to middle income white people. Ask BIPOC and low income white people about abuses by the state. 282878964
Reposted by Chris Ash (they/them)Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 11/01/2026The problem with ICE is not insufficient training or even training content. It’s creating an agency where you give people guns and tell them to terrorize Brown people and then recruit people excited to do that. 381461392
Reposted by Chris Ash (they/them)molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 09/01/2026they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die. 333231557021
Reposted by Chris Ash (they/them)The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 09/01/2026This is the point of the video leaked by the shooter. It is a rationale for erasing her humanity, thus making her murder justifiable by any standard, no matter how meaningless. She was a person with a life. Jonathan Ross stole it. See this thread for me. 17019
Reposted by Chris Ash (they/them)Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Fox News claims to be airing the "entire video" -- but they're cutting off before the officer says, "fucking bitch." 19559441743
Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 29/11/2025How is this a real story, and who is turning it into a musical ASAP? www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comAustrian nuns win reprieve in abandoned convent - if they stay off social mediaThe three nuns say they were taken out of the convent against their will and placed in a care home. 040
Reposted by Chris Ash (they/them)Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21/11/2025The Department of Education, led by the wife of a former head of the WWE, has declared nursing to no longer be a professional degree. It’s a war on so called women dominated professions It’s also devastating for the disability community We need nurses They’re an invaluable part of the care team 33561196
Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 21/11/2025If you are watching NC’s incredible resistance against ICE with awe (possibly with surprise because you think we’re all right wing hillbillies) donate to Siembra NC. They’re the ones providing specific ICE resistance trainings to community members. secure.actblue.com/donate/siemb...secure.actblue.comDonate to Siembra NCShow your support with a contribution. 050
Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Delighted to co-author this piece urging the de-silo-ing of anti-trafficking work, & genuine solidarity with grassroots movements. 1114
Reposted by Chris Ash (they/them)Dr Ella Cockbain @drellac.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Despite huge sums spent on anti-trafficking, there are staggeringly few evaluations of interventions & growing evidence of harms caused. This new edited book with @uclpress.bsky.social is our attempt to help change that. 1/ Open access with free digital downloads: uclpress.co.uk/book/evaluat...uclpress.co.ukEvaluating Anti-Trafficking InterventionsExplore the complexities of trafficking and the importance of effective evaluation in anti-trafficking interventions and measures. 1138
Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Excited to see this published: peer reviewed publication on trafficking survivors’ experiences with journalists. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 092
Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 16/11/2025It’s almost like they knew this would happen. The cruelty is the point. 000
Reposted by Chris Ash (they/them)Freedom United @freedomunitedhq.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Canada’s Supreme Court ruled to uphold laws criminalizing sex work, ignoring voices of 23 sex worker-led and migrant advocacy groups. The ruling perpetuates unsafe conditions, isolates workers, and reinforces vulnerability to abuse and exploitation. www.freedomunited.org/news/canadas...freedomunited.orgCanada's Supreme Court ruling ignores safety and lived experience - FreedomUnited.orgCanada rules to reaffirm the criminalization of many aspects of sex work—and once again silences the very people most affected by these laws. 024
Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Searched on Google for @drewkadel.bsky.social’s new book to snag the link, & Google AI was very helpful in reassuring me that I should not literally try to baptize a whale. 121
Reposted by Chris Ash (they/them)Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 06/11/2025If you aren’t fond of authoritarianism, a great place to start thwarting it is your local police force. You will likely discover it is the top publicly funded vehicle for fascism in your city. 12914
Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 01/11/2025This is not the behavior of a civilized democracy. 010
Reposted by Chris Ash (they/them)dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 27/10/20257. Our demands are moral, just & reasonable. The Times could enact them TODAY! There’s no reason not publish in @theintercept.com @mondoweiss.net @literaryhub.bsky.social @thenation.com & other places which are not prone to genocide peddling nor to publishing shoddy investigations (ie “Screams”) 04311
Reposted by Chris Ash (they/them)Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Meanwhile my friends in government don’t have their paychecks and there’s moms in the local Buy Nothing group asking for formula and diapers because their WIC stopped 416373
Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Nothing quite like having a court-ordered name change and Cashapp replying to every attempt I make to update my name with a request for a divorce decree. It doesn't matter how many times I tell them it was a court-ordered name change and not via divorce decree. Fucking wild. 030
Reposted by Chris Ash (they/them)Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 13/10/2025Holy shit go off John Oliver youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...youtu.beBari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)YouTube video by LastWeekTonight 182628678
Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 13/10/2025“Western theorists and researchers consistently conflated indigenous peoples with past peoples; to journey to Africa or to the Americas or to the Pacific Islands was to go backwards in time, sailing towards the origin of humanity.” Great piece worth a read. 062
Reposted by Chris Ash (they/them)The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/10/2025The EU has a secret weapon to counter Trump’s economic bullying. It’s time to use it | Johnny Ryantheguardian.comThe EU has a secret weapon to counter Trump’s economic bullying. It’s time to use it | Johnny RyanThe anti-coercion instrument, or ‘trade bazooka’, is designed to shield against foreign pressure, says civil liberties campaigner Johnny Ryan 1220477
Reposted by Chris Ash (they/them)Gramsci at D4RKw0KE_$4$UkE69 @tontonpogo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025"the imperial need for control is so desperate because it's so unnatural. It breaks, it leaks. Tyranny demands constant effort."media.tenor.coma man talking to another man with the words so much going wrong so much to say and all of it happening so quickly on the bottomAlt: Nemik talking to Cassian in ANDOR : 'so much going wrong so much to say and all of it happening so quickly' 05412
Reposted by Chris Ash (they/them)Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Anyway, learning another language is good for you because you die a thousand deaths of embarrassment and then you come out more humble and even more aware of your various human failings 1027123
Reposted by Chris Ash (they/them)Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 27/09/2025The biggest obstacle to learning a foreign language as an adult is accepting how stupid you will feel, in public, with other people. If you can move through that you can do anything 1339246
Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Am I more interested in hearing Trump tell other countries how to do their governance, address human rights, or navigate peace?media.tenor.coma woman with red hair says " none of the above " in front of a netflix logoAlt: a woman with red hair says " none of the above " in front of a netflix logo 150
Reposted by Chris Ash (they/them)Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 10/09/2025My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies. 23374642079
Reposted by Chris Ash (they/them)Freedom United @freedomunitedhq.bsky.social · 21/07/2025📢 NEW EVENT: On Weds, July 23, join us for an honest & shocking conversation, exposing one of the most uncomfortable truths of our time: state trafficking. It’s time to challenge the myth that trafficking is only the domain of criminals and rogue states. Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 085
Reposted by Chris Ash (they/them)Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Again, think about what would need to be in those files for this to be Republicans' least bad option. 61218291
Chris Ash (they/them) @christianashnc.bsky.social · 06/07/2025I was recently at a conference where people were promoting the idea of establishing NRMs everywhere. Clean your own house first, friends. 020
Reposted by Chris Ash (they/them)Kate Roberts @k8roberts.bsky.social · 01/07/2025When immigration policy ignores labour realities, it doesn’t end exploitation; it enables it. Read our analysis of the implementation of the Immigration White paper, planned for 22 July, and what this means for labour exploitation, here 👇 032