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Young GenXer. #ActuallyAutistic. Unapologetic leftist. I block TERFs, fascists, Zionists, and their apologists.

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 21/09/2026
It's official: Starbucks is gutting DEI policies company-wide to curry favor with Florida politicians as our union's call for a boycott grows. Vote with your dollar. BOYCOTT STARBUCKS.
Fox News headline: Starbucks agrees to DEI overhaul after blockbuster Florida legal showdown. The coffee giant will pay $1M and submit annual compliance certifications for four years under the agreement
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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I've never been a top 40 type of guy so i hadn't paid him any mind previous but for reasons that have nothing to do with music it has been an absolute delight to watch ed sheeran eat shit this past week
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026
also. the thing people hate is not ‘the technology’ it is the tech industry. they hate move fast and break things. they hate having everything they say tracked and processed while companies do whatever they want. they hate every single ideological value that animates silicon valley
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 14/05/2026
saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)
THE REPUBLICANS WANT IS DEAD
THE DEMOCRATS DONT CARE
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Changing the brand of your mass surveillance tool doesn’t make it any less of a mass surveillance tool.
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Boston Swaps Flock Safety for New License Plate Readers
A report outlines how Boston police launched pilots with Motorola and Axon as replacement platforms, which raised new questions about compliance with a city council ordinance.
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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The fact that both Democrats and Republicans are racing to the 10 side of a 90-10 issue really tells you a lot about the state of our democracy (it's a corporatocracy), and how both parties view democracy in general (as a nuisance).
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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
it's as simple as i see no evidence that national dems intend to resist, let alone stop, fascism, and i want to convice folks to stop relying on them to do so. because fascism must be stopped and they are in the way. that's it. that's my whole entire thing.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Paul Hikari @paulhikari.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Confirmed. ground.news/article/stra...
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Iran Sets New Hormuz Demand: Trump and Netanyahu Must Be Removed From Power, Senior Adviser Says
A senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader says the Strait of Hormuz should remain closed until Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu leave power.
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En Lilitu-Sin @enlilitusin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Democrats love picking fights and strategies that rip defeat out of the jaws of victory every single time. Whether it's attacking trans rights, attacking progressive Social Democrats, attacking Twitch Streamers, or just outright siding with Republicans. They are actively choosing to lose
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
Team Blue No Matter Who is going to have their work cut out for them because I for one refuse to entertain voting for or even saying nice things about someone who wants to compromise on trans rights. Like get the fuck away from me.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You see, calling out a genocide is antisemitic unlike supporting actual German fascists, which is just old fashioned free speech.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
local12.com
Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
wife: did you see trump dyed his hair? me: those last two words really flopped
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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
With alt text
Image border and text is in the trans flag colors on black background, it reads "trans lives matter more than harry potter" the words "matter more" are highlighted with pink flame. In fine print at bottom is original meme creator handle, @megemikoart
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Jan Murphy @packrat74.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
ICYMI: Le Guin's assessment of the Harry Potter books, from an interview in The Guardian (09 Feb 2004). www.theguardian.com/books/2004/f...
Q: Nicholas Lezard has written 'Rowling can type, but Le Guin can write.' What do you make of this comment in the light of the phenomenal success of the Potter books? I'd like to hear your opinion of JK Rowling's writing style

UKL: I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the "incredible originality" of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid's fantasy crossed with a "school novel", good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited.
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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Not the result I was expecting; my dad was born in DC, and his family have been there since the 1820's, but I never lived there myself. Moved around a lot as a kid, and my speech-formative years were spent in California and Florida, then 20 years in Georgia, then a decade in the UK.
Dialect map, showing my results as most similar to someone from Washington, DC, and least similar to someone from Minneapolis (but not more than 50% similar to anywhere particular).
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"USPS leaders have 'discarded all best practices' in order to ensure the [disenfrachising] project gets implemented ... USPS officials who have worked on the process have described it as 'a shit show[.]'"
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
You cannot say this and remain in office. He has to go. And Democrats have to make an enormous deal out of threats to exterminate an entire group of people.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
hahhaahahaahhahaahahhahaha
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I advise everyone who still thinks they're entitled to vote scold about the Democrats to look at what the actual people elected to office on a democratic ticket are choosing to do, right now, amidst arguably the most severe crisis to hit the Republic since the civil war.
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Prism @prismreports.org · 26/08/2026
In Southern California’s Palestinian community, survivor’s guilt & resilience go hand-in-hand, Mohammed Ahmad reports. The region is home to one of the largest Palestinian diasporas in the country & since the genocide in Gaza began, community members say there’s no going back to “normal” life.
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In Southern California’s Palestinian community, survivor’s guilt and resilience go hand-in-hand
The region is home to one of the largest Palestinian diasporas in the country, and since the genocide in Gaza began, community members say there’s no going back to “normal” life
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
ALT version.
The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel.  To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect.  Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.


This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public. 

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.
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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Cardle 1/5 🟢 🟢 🟢 www.playcardle.com
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Cardle
Guess the car in 5 tries. A new car is available each day.
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 15/07/2026
jk rowling is funding and abetting a genocide
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 13/07/2026
Today ICE fatally shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford, Maine. This is the 11th person they’ve murdered this year—that we know of. He did everything he was supposed to. He was authorized to work in the US. He served his community. ICE still murdered him in broad daylight. Abolish ICE.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.
SO FOR THE FUTURE (LITERALLY) WE'RE NOT ACCEPTING AI POSTERS OR FLYERS FOR THE PUB.

We're right next to Ireland's biggest Art College, lads. It's not a good look.

WE UNDERSTAND BANDS CAN BE SKINT BUT RELYING ON SOME EARTH KILLING APP FROM SOME PAEDO ISLAND BILLIONAIRE IS NOT THE WAY. WE GOT BY WITHOUT IT AND WE'LL GET BY AGAIN.

IF YOU'RE STUCK WE'LL HELP. (YES IT HAS BEEN USED HERE BEFORE BUT CONSIDER THIS THE START OF THE END OF IT.)

THANKS, HUMANS.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 29/03/2026
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Reports that Iran will likely withdraw from the NPT. The NPT has a withdrawal clause. After the events of the last 9 mos - not 1 but 2 illegal wars against Iran facilitated by the IAEA’s work - no one can argue that Iran does not have the strongest legal case possible to invoke this clause
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eerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 28/03/2026
From late last year, relevant again today theconversation.com/world-athlet...
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World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990
World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.
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Reuben Baron @rubigb.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Don't even watch the Harry Potter HBO trailer. Don't give them attention.
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IMEU Policy Project @imeupolicy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The facts are clear: Israel is an apartheid state which has committed genocide against Palestinians with US weapons. Every single major human rights organization agrees with this. If Newsom can’t tell the truth about this issue, what else is he too afraid to stand up for?
Governor Gavin Newsom says he regrets using the term apartheid in relation to Israel, and says he used it the same way Tom Friedman does--as a term that describes where Israel is heading under Netanyahu, not a term describing the current reality.
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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This really is an encapsulation of what being an American is: experiencing something needlessly cruel and profoundly stupid while propaganda you can’t turn off blares about how free and lucky you are
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Pia Guerra @piaguerra.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Someday...
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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Wow. If I'm not mistaken, this marks the longest-range use of ballistic missiles in warfare to date. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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Iran Targeted Diego Garcia Base With Ballistic Missiles
Iran fired two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, a joint U.S.-U.K. military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean, according to multiple U.S. officials. Neither of the missiles h...
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isaac 🌻 @androgynyfiend.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I'm the burnout leftist friend
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Tikun Olam @richards1052.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
UK security adviser ‘attended’ US-Iran talks and judged deal was within reach. Witkoff & Kushner were Israeli assets who wanted war &:dragged Trump into it, despite there being no Isrsnian threat & a breakthrough Iran nuclear offer on the table
theguardian.com
UK security adviser ‘attended’ US-Iran talks and judged deal was within reach
Exclusive: Jonathan Powell thought Tehran’s ‘surprising’ offer on its nuclear programme could prevent rush to war, sources say
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much like your ghosting @mlyp.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Perfect
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
What Israel is doing to Southern Lebanon is *clearly* aimed at ethnic cleansing and colonization, using the same tactics as in the Gaza genocide. Nearly 1 million people forcibly displaced. We have to reject this evil with all our might, and support those who are resisting it.
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
YES! I AM ALSO A HATER AND I WILL NOT BE POLITE. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
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I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 05/02/2026
whatever it is no one wants it
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Gus Squawks @gussquawks.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
What do you MEAN the president audibly SHIT himself live on camera and they immediately cancelled the press conference and rushed everyone out of the room like it's a fire drill, and it happened two days ago, and I'm just hearing about it NOW?
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