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Colby Williams (xe/they) 🌹

@colbywilliams.bsky.social
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Sociologist, Gadfly, Radical, tree-hugger, cat parent, Queer as Hell (they/them or xe/xir) Dreaming of a world without money… Free Palestine! Free Turtle Island! Aī is theft, ecocide, fascīst, and shit

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 03/10/2025
#OtD 3 Oct 1993 Katerina Gogou, Greek anarchist poet, author and actor died by suicide aged just 53. After the fall of the dictatorship, she was a key figure in the early Athens anarchist scene, and a vigourous proponent of trans and gay rights stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1025...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 03/10/2025
#OtD 3 Oct 1896 designer, artist and libertarian socialist William Morris died of tuberculosis at age 62. We have used some of his iconic artwork in merch to help fund our work: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 03/10/2025
#OtD 3 Oct 1935 Ethiopia was invaded by Mussolini's Italy, who committed countless atrocities, including the using poison gas and concentration camps. Many Black men and women came to the country to fight stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1024...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 03/10/2025
#OtD 3 Oct 1932 Iraq became independent after 17 years of British rule. After independence, the Iraqi government maintained close military and economic ties with Britain, and several anti-British revolts subsequently took place stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7745...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 03/10/2025
#OtD 3 Oct 1965 revolutionary nurse, Beatriz González Ortega, died in Mexico City aged 91. During the Mexican Revolution, Ortega was part of Pancho Villa's peasant army, caring for the militia and nursing the wounded. More on the Mexican Revolution: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 03/10/2025
#OtD 3 Oct 1952 the UK conducted its first-ever atomic bomb test on the Monte Bello Islands off the coast of Western Australia. The government later admitted they gave no thought for the health of Aboriginal people living nearby stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1024...
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Colby Williams (xe/they) 🌹 @colbywilliams.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Damn, Bluesky really nosedived even faster than I feared it would. Another drop in the bucket for not having any CEOs of anything. Fucking parasites.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Deskilling is real. This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service. Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
For poetry day, here's a personal favorite by Rita Mae Brown. Words to outlast every empire. An army of lovers shall not fail. 🏴
Sappho's Reply

My voice rings down through thousands of years
To coil around your body and give you strength,
You who have wept in direct sunlight,
Who have hungered in invisible chains,
Tremble to the cadence of my legacy:
An army of lovers shall not fail.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Memorizing this
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Colby Williams (xe/they) 🌹 @colbywilliams.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Fuck EA for this buyout! I have been a regular player of Sims for years and years (and years) but will now be boycotting. #BoycottEA #EABuyout
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Colby Williams (xe/they) 🌹 @colbywilliams.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Another government shut down, because the fascists that sycophants keep electing to exterminate me and other groups are increasing the exploitation of a predatory, dysfunctional healthcare system? Idk, man, I’ve got a lot going on. It’s still Single-payer Universal Healthcare.
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Colby Williams (xe/they) 🌹 @colbywilliams.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
A lot of people are going to be wringing their hands and asking what went wrong with AI in the next few years, like we haven’t always had proof of it wasting extreme amounts of water, pushing fascist ideology, and stealing intellectual property Count on it. Then, never listen to those people again.
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 01/10/2025
“I’m resigning from my position as Democratic leader and retiring from the Senate.”
A fundraising text 

NEW MESSAGE
FROM:
Chuck Schumer
Meredith, is there anything I can say to convince you to donate $20 (becomes $80!) to help take back the Senate majority
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 30/09/2025
I don't think the people expressing surprise about things the Trump administration is doing understand how absolutely fucking crazymaking each of your posts is for Black and Indigenous folks who called *all of this* and sat through people talking about "respecting norms" for years
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
"Fuck Every Cop Who Ever Did His Job" Seen in Downtown Los Angeles
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 30/09/2025
#OtD 30 Sep 1946 sentencing at the Nuremberg trials began. 12 were sentenced to death, seven received prison sentences from 10 years to life in prison, and three acquitted. But thousands of fascists were reintegrated into society across Europe and the US
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 30/09/2025
#OtD 30 Sep 1918 bankers in Zürich, Switzerland walked out in their first ever strike amidst growing unrest over the rising cost of living. A local general strike then broke out in support of their demand for a pay rise and was successful stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1034...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 30/09/2025
#OtD 30 Sep 1919 the Elaine massacre began in Arkansas, US, when hundreds of African-Americans were murdered and tortured by white racists and security forces, after Black farm workers tried to organise for better pay stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1034...
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Colby Williams (xe/they) 🌹 @colbywilliams.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
We were in a bad place, historically, as soon as “Antifa” became widely considered bad and scary.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 28/09/2025
#OtD 28 Sep 1864 the International Workingmen's Association was formed in London, UK. It was a gathering of socialist, anarchist and trade union organisations from around the world dedicated to the emancipation of the working class shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 28/09/2025
#OtD 28 Sep 1985 two days of rioting erupted in Brixton, London after police shot and paralysed Dorothy Groce, an innocent Jamaican mother, in her bed. The police did not apologise until 29 years later stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1006...
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Colby Williams (xe/they) 🌹 @colbywilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I would feel bad for everyone who just can’t grasp—despite years of evidence—that the democratic establishment is corrupted beyond salvaging… if they weren’t such a huge part of the fucking problem. Start seeing the whole picture.
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Colby Williams (xe/they) 🌹 @colbywilliams.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
AI isn’t artificial intelligence it’s Anti-Intelligence
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Colby Williams (xe/they) 🌹 @colbywilliams.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Genuinely happy for every Disney adult freeing themself right now. There is no magic in the reality of that franchise. But like, can we do this with everything? We could literally mold a better economy and culture, creating incredible new shit.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 20/09/2025
#OtD 20 Sep 1978 Ford workers in the UK sparked the "winter of discontent" when 15,000 of them walked out against a Labour govt-union pay cap. They stayed out till Nov, winning a 17% increase, and 1m other workers followed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9527...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 20/09/2025
#OtD 20 Sep 1973 a member of the @IWW, Frank Teruggi, was snatched from his home in Santiago, Chile by soldiers following the right-wing military coup. He was tortured then murdered and his body dumped in a public street stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9333...
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
"Destroy Fascism" Mural seen in Adelaide, South Australia
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 20/09/2025
#OtD 20 Sep 1915 publications by the radical Industrial Workers of the World union, @IWW, including its Australian newspaper, Direct Action, were banned from being imported into Aotearoa (New Zealand) for its opposition to World War I stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9331...
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Colby Williams (xe/they) 🌹 @colbywilliams.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Idk. We told you that most Democrats are actually Fascist, too. Start seeing the whole picture.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Write your queer little books, graphic novels, poems. Draw your gay art. They can’t stop us in a way that sticks, because we will always be here, and so will our art.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
A new national poll shows democratic socialism has made enormous strides over the last decade. But to grow beyond blue strongholds, its champions will need to continue to anchor campaigns in bread-and-butter economics.
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What Americans Think of Democratic Socialism
A new national poll shows democratic socialism has made enormous strides over the last decade. But to grow beyond blue strongholds, its champions will need to continue to anchor campaigns in bread-and-butter economics.
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Mouflon Cloud @mouflon.cloud · 18/09/2025
the elevator scene from ff7 and barret says the quoted tweet text "technology used to be cool, but now it’s owned by the worst, most moneysick humans on the planet. but there are transsexual furry hackers out there still fighting the good fight"
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Colby Williams (xe/they) 🌹 @colbywilliams.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Good thing most white liberals aren’t trained to be afraid of “Antifa” Oh, wait…
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Colby Williams (xe/they) 🌹 @colbywilliams.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Don’t register for protests, lovelies
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GigerPunk @gigerpunk.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Fuck me this is bleak. But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.
‘Children's book illustrator isn't a job anymore.’
I've been out of work for a while now. I made children's book illustrations, stock art, and took various art commissions.

Now I have several maxed out credit cards and use a donation bin for food. I haven't had a steady contract in over a year. two weeks ago, when a client who has switched to AI found out about this he gave me $50 out of "a sense of guilt." Basically pity for the fact that Illustrator, as a job, does not exist anymore.

It was my birthday recently and I sincerely considered not living anymore.
The worst part of all is that the parents who once supported me fully in being an artist sent me an AI generated picture of a caricature of themselves holding a birthday cake with my name spelled incorrectly.
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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
You didn’t recognize fascism when Black people faced harassment by law enforcement, were beaten and bitten by dogs while advocating for equal rights. Or when police bombed a Black community in Philadelphia. You failed to recognize fascism when it impacted others. Now we’re here.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 16/09/2025
#OtD 16 Sep 1973 Chilean communist folk singer and musician Victor Jara was murdered by Pinochet's troops following his US-backed coup a few days before. He was brutally tortured and shot over 40 times in the Chile Stadium stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8846...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 16/09/2025
#OtD 16 Sep 1889 after nearly five weeks of striking, London dockers won nearly all their demands and headed back to work. The success of the strike was a turning point in the British workers' movement and spurred organisation. Learn more: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8836...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 16/09/2025
#OtD 16 Sep 1917 Eva Lynch, a member of the @IWW union in Australia was arrested while addressing a meeting in Sydney where she was training women public speakers to try to keep the union alive while so many of the men were in prison. Learn more: workingclasshistory.com/2019/01/28/e...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 16/09/2025
#OtD 16 Sep 1982 right-wing Christian militias, supported by the Israeli army, began carrying out out acts of murder, torture, rape, and abuse in the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon. 800- 3500 people were killed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1271...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 16/09/2025
#OtD 16 Sep 1945 43,000 oil workers in 20 states across the USA walked out on strike. Learn more in this incredible book about US mass strikes: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/str...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 16/09/2025
#OtD 16 Sep 1902 Berlin-based anti-fascist resistance martyr Mildred Fish-Harnack was born in Milwaukee. Under Hitler she recruited others to the resistance and organised against Nazism until she was arrested in 1942 and later beheaded. More in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e63-...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 16/09/2025
#OtD 16 Sep 1965 1200 mostly Mexican farm workers voted to join a strike of predominantly Filipine grape farm workers in Delano, California for the federal minimum wage. Holding out for five years, they eventually won stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8845...
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Colby Williams (xe/they) 🌹 @colbywilliams.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
It will become more and more clear, as the tides of public sentiment are turned in coming days, that the Democratic Party threw the election last year to support the Zionist genocide in occupied Palestine. They let Tr*mp win, in order to uphold and bring about the end-of-the-world prophecy.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 15/09/2025
#OtD 15 Sep 1963 four African-American girls were killed and 22 others were wounded after KKK members planted a bomb against a predominantly Black church in Birmingham, Alabama. This act of terrorism marked a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8743...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 15/09/2025
#OtD 15 Sep 1983 Michael Stewart, a 25-year-old Black student, was beaten to death by 10 NYPD officers after being caught painting graffiti. The medical examiner then helped them cover up the murder. No officers were convicted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8745...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 15/09/2025
#OtD 15 Sep 2023 a campaign of strikes began at GM, Ford and Stellantis in the US. After 6 weeks, @UAW workers won a 25% wage increase, more jobs, abolition of a 2-tier pay system at GM, and union recognition at GM subsidiaries including EV plants stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1139...
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