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Justin

@jaykaydanks.bsky.social
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Labour activist, space nerd, bad fantasy film apologist, unsuccessful writer, ok game master. He/him.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
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have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 06/10/2026
Here's why the President of North Texas Labor is boycotting Starbucks alongside other union members in Texas ✊
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Sloane @sloanesloane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you’ve been wondering what I’ve been up to the last 1.5 years well, yknow, just organizing with my coworkers to unionize the most celebrated & beloved TTRPG and TCGs of all time 🥰✊ this took buckets of blood, sweat & tears but we DID IT!!! If you want to support us, sign that petition and BOOST!
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Geologist & astronaut Dr. Kathryn Sullivan: the "most vertical human" in history. + From space: 1st American woman to walk in space, 11 Oct 1984 + To the deepest point of Earth's seabed: 1st woman to dive to the Challenger Deep (🔽 35,853 ft), 7 June 2020 She was born #OTD in 1951. #WomenInSTEM
An official NASA studio portrait of Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan (born 1951) during her early career as a space shuttle astronaut. Taken ahead of her groundbreaking October 1984 mission where she became the first American woman to perform a spacewalk, this image carries deep historical significance for women in STEM fields. The composition is a classic, vertically oriented portrait focusing on Sullivan from the waist up. She stands positioned at a three-quarter angle while turning her face back toward the viewer. Sullivan looks just to the right of the camera lens with a warm, confident smile and a gentle, approachable expression. Her brown hair is styled in a voluminous, feathered 1980s shoulder-length cut with soft curls framing her forehead. She wears a professional navy blue short-sleeved polo shirt featuring a prominent, authentic red and white NASA "worm" logo patch on the left breast pocket. In the background on her right stands a large, vibrant United States flag with its stars and stripes prominently displayed. To her left, softly out of focus on a table, sits a scale desktop model of a NASA Space Shuttle attached to its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters. The mood is formal, patriotic, and inspiring.A candid photograph of pioneering American astronaut and oceanographer Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan (born 1951) celebrating her historic June 2020 return from the Challenger Deep—the deepest known point in Earth’s oceans. This moment solidified her legacy as the first person to both walk in space and reach the ocean floor. The outdoor shot frames Sullivan off-center against a deep blue, slightly undulating ocean that stretches out to a hazy, light-clouded horizon line under bright sunlight. Sullivan stands leaning slightly out from a white oceanic vessel hatch or submersible entry point. She smiles broadly with triumphant energy, looking off-camera to the left. Her left arm is fully extended outward, flashing an enthusiastic thumbs-up sign. On the far left edge of the frame, another crew member's hand wearing a black textured glove mirrors her thumbs-up gesture. She wears a cobalt blue utility flight suit featuring a golden rectangular patch over her right chest. Her light brown hair is short and windblown, and she wears rectangular tortoiseshell sunglasses. Thick, bright yellow heavy-duty rigging straps slice vertically through the left foreground, framing her body, while a curved metallic silver handrail sits to her left. The overall mood is joyful, victorious, and adventurous.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here’s him touting the carbon capture project as sustainable — despite the vast majority of captured carbon (73%) being used to extract more oil from otherwise depleted wells. Carney’s government offers a tax incentive even when this is how captured carbon is used.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Carney is trying to get ahead of criticisms by saying this announcement is tied to others: carbon capture (a snake oil solution to climate change used to extract more oil from depleted wells) And ocean conservation efforts (good! But not enough to mitigate the pipeline harm!!)
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Carney greenwashes and also attempts to Indigenous-wash his pipeline, despite: 1) environmental experts making it clear his ocean conservation plan wont change the fact that this is an orca-killing project 2) Indigenous communities already sounding the alarm about insufficient consultation
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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Finally, here's the famous graphic that was made by the TNG art department (Okuda I think) to convey the true scale of the Enterprise-D to the writers by overlaying its outline on a map of the Paramount lot.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks.
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 28/09/2026
I think if you meaningfully punish OpenAI & co for all of these cyberattacks then they will stop doing them. Whether or not you want to anthropomorphize the agents, you gotta just land there.
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Man, the more things change etc.
1968, O'Connor hosted a syndicated talk show also called The Donald O'Connor Show. The program was canceled because the dancer was becoming "too political,"[how?] and O'Connor was reprimanded by the studio.[34]
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 28/09/2026
More than 38,000 residential school survivors testified to the abuse they experienced as children. Next September, Canada plans to destroy their records.
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Canada plans to destroy thousands of residential school testimonies. These women are trying to save them
The 38,000 testimonies are the largest body of evidence about children’s experiences in these institutions. Journalist Connie Walker and lawyer Kimberly Murray say losing it would mean losing history — both painful and illuminating
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Remember when tech companies advertised their products by how much it was going to save you time or money not how much they want to kill you?
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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 28/09/2026
My “Involved in Human Trafficking“ shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are making me want to stop wearing my shirt rather than reconsider my involvement in human trafficking
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 28/09/2026
In 39 years, it will be 2065, and first contact with the Vulcans will already have taken place two years earlier.
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Star Trek TNG Data Shrugs
Alt: Star Trek TNG Data Shrugs
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 28/09/2026
Star Trek: The Next Generation started 39 years ago today. The future began again at this (Encounter at Far)point.
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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
…what’s a drive-in?
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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I am staring into the middle distance harder than anyone ever has
BY THE EARLY 2020S THERE WAS A PLACE LIKE THIS IN EVERY MAJORcity in the United StatesJust people, without jobs or places to liveWelcome to the 21st century, Doctor.
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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"But that all depends on how you interpret a centuries old document that has been translated and re-translated, and was couched in metaphoric language to begin with!" GEE I WONDER IF THE WRITERS ON THIS ONE IS COMMENTING ON SOMETHING FROM REAL LIFE
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Mykael Wyvern — 🔮🧙🏻‍♂️🐉 @wyvern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Sisko appearing to speak the words of the Quoted Skeet
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Meghan 💀 @meglish.com · 28/09/2026
We’re back to Voyager tonight with “Fair Haven”, and you know what that means. It’s time to *horns blare, sirens wail* DELETE! THE! WIFE! ko-fi.com/meglish/shop
Gold, purple, and black enamel pin in LCARS style that reads “Delete The Wife”Same design as the pin but as a holographic stickerSticker that says “I Support Women’s Wrongs” and the type is designed to look like Janeway’s uniform
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bisexual knighting
The green knight at medieval times lit in pink and blue
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NDP @ndp.ca · 25/09/2026
BREAKING: Liberal MP Sean Casey was demoted for supporting NDP MP Jenny Kwan’s bill to close a loophole in Canada’s arms sales regime that allows weapons to be shipped via the US to Israel, a country that is still committing genocide against the Palestinian people. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Liberal MP says he was demoted for supporting NDP bill targeting arms export controls | CBC News
Charlottetown MP Sean Casey says he was removed from his position as parliamentary secretary to the minister of veterans affairs because he voted against the government and supported an NDP private me...
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Alex McG @spydak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
(volume warning)
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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 25/09/2026
The vibe I get from these early TNG episodes is that it was a bunch of writers trying to do scifi stuff and then Roddenberry would come in and be like “time to rewrite this whole script to make it horny and weird”
leader executed for treason."! Black explained the premise of a society that developed laws to prevent terrorism and chaos: "Let's say that what we do is kill everybody who is a terrorist or suspected of being a terrorist. Now the people who have killed everybody, what do they do?"[2]
The idea was re-written by the show's creator Gene Roddenberry and writer Worley Thorne. It was Roddenberry and Thorne who created the godlike entity and sexed up the Edo." James L.
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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 25/09/2026
I don't even know what's happening in this show anymore. Season 1 is so much weirder than expected.
Screenshot from Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Justice" showing Tasha Yar sitting next to a man in a woman in skimpy white cloths
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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I think DS9 would somehow actually be less queer if the characters had been allowed to be open about it.
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 25/09/2026
Michael J Dolan @amichaelxdolan
When you argue that fascists should be defeated through debate what you're actually suggesting is that vulnerable minorities should have to endlessly argue for their right to exist and that at no point should the debate be considered over and won.
10:31 AM • 2019-05-20
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Dave Rudden @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My five year old has the soul of Orson Welles. We were outside school and he 'put a kiss in my pocket for later.' Extremely touched by this, I gave him two back. He dug out the second one, THEATRICALLY CRUSHED IT IN HIS FIST and said 'one is enough.'
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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Though the gag about Kennedy here is still the best
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Au service de la france - Kennedy
YouTube video by Benjamin GUILLOIS
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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This has reminded me of the Incredible Spy Comedy Au Service De La France, which pulls no punches about how shittily Paris treated the rest of the Empire
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Au service de la France L'indépendance
YouTube video by Silvalining123
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yeah I wonder who this is. Completely different topic: don't watch the Harry Potter TV show.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Canada had a legal duty to arrest Netanyahu as he crossed Canadian airspace www.ctvnews.ca/world/israel...
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Netanyahu crosses Canadian airspace with arrest warrant in effect
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled through Canadian airspace on Thursday, despite facing an international arrest warrant.
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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
call me Dad but ethics matter
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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
"Selling Out Is Bad" is a valuable concept and despite all the baggage and bullshit and elitism it could contain it's actually really good to reinforce the ideal that having integrity when it matters, especially when it hurts, is what good/cool people do. Should be adapted instead of jettisoned.
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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
THAT'S THE DIVERGENCE POINT!?
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Justin @jaykaydanks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Now, I've seen a lot of Star Trek TNG... I have no idea what I'm looking at here.
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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
and like... in a book by someone who didn't want to rack up a body count on par with a petty 3rd world dictator, this would be...the...point? Instead, the book makes fun of you for going, "Wait did you say slavery?"
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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's the fact that the book is like this insanely good metaphor for growing up as a privileged person in the 1st world. At first, you're like, "Heck yeah, rad stuff! You got magic! You got free food! you got FUN GAMES" and then it's like, "Oh how does all this work" and the adults go, "Slavery! :D"
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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Harry Potter, after all this time, has been stripped of every iota of grace that can be given and has turned into this detestible, loathsome thing in my brain...but, like, the thing that remains most galling in the books? (not in real life, in real life, it's all the murder JKR is responsible for)
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 24/09/2026
It has never been more clear why baristas need the backing of a union.
Today, Starbucks announced they’re closing about 250 US stores this week. A small number of these are union stores.

We expect to engage in effects bargaining for every impacted union store, as we have done elsewhere, over the conditions of these closures, including transfers so workers can be placed in another Starbucks store based on their preferences.

But let’s be clear - today’s announcement proves once again that ‘Back to Starbucks’ is nothing more than a betrayal of what workers and customers loved about the company.As Starbucks continues to close stores, violate labor law, hike up our healthcare premiums, and betray its core value of belonging to appease right-wing politicians, the company is moving farther away from everything it once was. Starbucks is becoming unrecognizable under CEO Brian Niccol — and that is why labor allies, elected officials, and customers are all joining together to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a fair union contract. Starbucks leadership is failing the company, and trouble is brewing for Starbucks. When just this month, the country’s most pro-business court of appeals called Starbucks a ‘repeat violator’ of labor law, it’s time for everyone to start paying attention.

* source: Starbucks v. NLRB, 24-60650 (5th Cir. 2026)


It has never been more clear why baristas need the backing of a union. We love our jobs, and we know Starbucks doesn’t run without us, so we’re organizing together to demand a better future and a fair contract.
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 23/09/2026
need to make tshirts that say “I will try to live as I was and I hope to survive”
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spooky cannoli @boner.ink · 23/09/2026
is every ad gambling now, like do other companies even advertise anymore or has the economy completed its transformation into casino
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Earl Grey Screams Club @earlgreymemes.club · 22/09/2026
curated meme by unknown author using a scene of Data and Ishara Yar from the end of TNG "Legacy"; Ishara is standing on the transporter pad saying goodbye to Data; Ishara: "I wasn't always lying to you."; lshara: "That time we spent talking, that was the closest thing to friendship I ever had."; Ishara: "If that means anything to you."; Data: "I fucked your sister."; Ishara: *shocked look*; Data: "Energize."; Ishara: *disappears*; the Enterprise flies away with Executive Producer Rick Berman title card
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