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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

context: cockroach movement in India “Garbage of the world, useless cockroaches, terrorists, and you scum, unite!” 🧵

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🪼Ghost Jellyfishlines 🔜 PaxU🪼 @jellyfishlines.itch.io · 09/10/2026

It’s fucking bleak. Every trans person I know is struggling with finding & keeping work. Trans women especially. Even in “progressive” cities. Every trans peep I know has kofi goals that aren’t being fucking met AT ALL. Some folks I know are on the brink of homelessness. FUCKING HELP TRANS PEOPLE!

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cat @aisleofcats.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

from lao tzu's's tao te ching (leguin's rendition)

excerpt from the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, as translated and interpreted by Ursula K LeGuin, including a footnote from the latter

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Hardness

Living people
are soft and tender.
Corpses are hard and stiff.
The ten thousand things, the living grass, the trees, are soft, pliant.
Dead, they're dry and brittle.

So hardness and stiffness go with death;
tenderness, softness, go with life.

And the hard sword fails, the stiff tree's felled.
The hard and great go under.
The soft and weak stay up.

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In an age when hardness is supposed to be the essence of strength, and even the beauty of women is reduced nearly to the bone, I welcome this reminder that tanks and tombstones are not very adequate role models, and that to be alive is to be vulnerable.

excerpt from the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, as translated and interpreted by Ursula K LeGuin

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Paradoxes
Nothing in the world
is as soft, as weak, as water; nothing else can wear away the hard, the strong, and remain unaltered.
Soft overcomes hard, weak overcomes strong.
Everybody knows it, nobody uses the knowledge.

So the wise say:
By bearing common defilements
you become a sacrificer at the altar of earth; by bearing common evils you become a lord of the world.

Right words sound wrong.

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Human beings process information through narrative, through story. We think in stories, remember in stories, plan for the future in stories, worry in stories, dream in stories and connect with one another through stories. When we read to children we embody our deeply human birthright as storytellers

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 08/10/2026

"When bystanders called 911 seeking emergency medical attention for the locked down protester, the callers were informed that emergency medical services would not be responding to the scene."

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Week of action against ICE in Vermont continues. "The resulting “Harvest Lane Community Garden” was designed to serve two purposes: block traffic to a key US Immigration and Customs Enforcement building and beautify the area." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/06/m...

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Protesters barricade road to Vermont ICE facility with ‘community gardens’ - The Boston Globe

About 40 protesters built flower boxes in the middle of a road to block access to ICE facilities in Williston on Tuesday.

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Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder @nilahmagruder.com · 07/10/2026

ayyyyyyy while fascist billionaires are speed-running the collapse of the TV/film industry, I hope artists and writers in Hollywood are thinking about what they want the industry that rises out of its ashes to look like bcuz this industry is going to need leaders that give a shit about making art

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The reality in this country is that the VAST majority of people who experience sexual violence will never tell the cops. Ever. This born out by all statistics but if you've survived sexual violence you also know this from your personal experience. There are many reasons for this. But again...

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Roke @faradayr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What a week (month, year, eternity) to be a survivor. Its tiring (maddening) to see so much energy exerted on debating reconciliation with abusers, while the survivors... we're just left to pick up the pieces, of ourselves and each other.

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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

LA is HOT. But does it have to be this hot? Did you know shade from a single tree can drop temps by 20° or more? Yet working-class neighborhoods like South LA, East LA, and the Valley get the least tree coverage and bear the brunt of extreme heat. Let's finally cool things down for everyone.

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David Howe @monolithfiji.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If this is legal, it needs to be made illegal. There is clearly something broken when clear monopolies are allowed to flourish. The fact that this is inherently a right-wing operation is beside the point, NO company should have this much power over media. This is going to be a bloodbath for workers

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.

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QuarkTiger @quarktiger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

September 30th October 1st

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Jonas Goonface @jonasgoonface.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

use what u got 2 get what u need

A peasant rascal armed with farming implements goes off to start a fight. The Lyrics to BlackBird Raum's "The Helm of Ned Kelly" are captioned:
We'll be eating soup of stone till what we grow is what we own. But we won't steal from the land what's freely given. Tear up the deeds to the land, throw the debts into the furnace. Debts to god, to the banks, and to the landlords.

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Ham Roids 🎃 @anarchymarshmallow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

PLEASE A man could have completely prevented my assault and subsequent year of abuse and gaslighting by my abuser if he'd just said something like "dude don't be weird, let her sleep on the couch." Instead, he just laughed as I was carried away. Please. Say something. Say anything.

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

everyone on this earth but especially people who hold forth about media literacy absolutely must inscribe "your media literacy can't end at the subject at hand. there's a topic above the topic." directly onto their brain. tattoo it on the inside of your eyelids.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's so fucking bleak that there's so many more posts here about scene drama at a lesbian bar than there is the US government's border Gestapo shooting a guy in the back, kidnapping him, throwing him in a camp, denying him proper medical care, and then torturing him Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If it seemed like a major newspaper making some conflict at a random dyke bar a national news piece in a push to depict trans and higher-risk folks as inherently unreasonable was suspect af...well, it was. Y'all who were breathlessly sharing that story? You were just being played. Have some sense.

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Imagine going to the UNITED Nations and threatening to annihilate a nation. What have we become." What you always were. The USA was always THIS. They have annihilated Nations. 575+. NATIVE NATIONS. This is where they started. This is what they do. This is just the first time anyone woke up to it.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Emma Frost x Miss Piggy comic has hit the internet and it's so, so, so much more magnificent than I ever could have hoped for

Emma Frost: "Emma Frost, darling. I'm a telepath. May I read your mind to ascertain if you're telling the truth?"

Miss Piggy: "But of course, darling I am an open book, a tell-all memoir."

Emma Frost telepathically witnessing the entirety of Miss Piggy's life.

Wolverine: "Frost? She legit?"
Emma Frost: "She's..She's... She's everything. And I would die for her."

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dirt of the looming dawn @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

octavia butler's notes on sexy

photo of a page of handwritten notes, some words are highlighted by being circled: those words include fear, striving, transformation, self-reliance, self-confidence, self-discipline, dependency, evil, good (is only sexy when it's very powerful, not sanctimonious, & not too good), opposites, and symbiosis l.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026

Blanket response to replies from cis people telling me Dem politicians actually support trans people

Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
I don't want to be rude to you but we simply do not live in the same world.
5:35 PM • Sep 20, 2026

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I can’t imagine what you have to do to a human’s soul to make them believe that this is justified or worse yet to lie about it being pretend.

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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism"

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OG 2Tone @offbydesign.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

Mayor Scott deserves his flowers just as much as Mamdani. He's doing a lot with less and cares heavily for the city but doesn't get the recognition.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What we call AI isn't intelligent and it doesn't have opinions. It doesn't guess answers, it is a complicated autocomplete. It does not work.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Online leftism is a powerful system of self-surveillance that effectively captures and counters righteous anger."

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BOGLUDDITE @brucemackay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Luddite Temple manifesto in a readable format.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 07/08/2026

Nothing but respect for *my* Odyssey movie

The main trio from Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

hey why is no one talking about the licensing situation with this A24/SCP thing? are they releasing it under the same cc-by-sa license every SCP project is required to have? are they betting creative commons won't hold up in court? seems like the kind of question a journalist should look into idk

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SCP Foundation Movie Coming To Theaters In 2027 With A24 Distributing

An SCP Foundation movie is coming to theaters in 2027 via A24. Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Studios announced the project earlier this year.

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Amazing news, thanks to decades of unrelenting advocacy by the Yurok, Karuk and Klamath Tribes. It’s heartening to see the collaborative nature of the salmon restoration effort reflected in this paper’s authorship, which includes all three Tribes, state & federal agencies, NGOs & private entities.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/09/2026

First they came for the trans people, and I bear sprayed them because fuck you

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Diana Moreno @dianaforqueens.com · 31/08/2026

Masked settlers beat a Palestinian woman unconscious and attacked the NBC News team interviewing her. Imagine what happens when cameras aren't rolling. Settler violence in the West Bank is surging, funded by tax-exempt New York "charities." The Not On Our Dime! Act can stop this funding.

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day, your boss is stealing from you.

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SeymourCox @realseymourcox.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Which way, western laborer?

The Yu Gi Oh "Dramatic Crossroads" card, for Labor Day. One path is the Homestar Runner Todaybor Day is Labor Day video, the other path is the Vinny Vinesauce Labor Day public access TV special

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Jimmy's Hell Cousin @negaversebuffet.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

my partner was trying to find clips of this because i refused to believe it existed, it was unable to find any clips, but it did eventually find this masterpiece

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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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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