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Kris Ripper (ze/zir)

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I went to the grand reopening of the African American Civil War museum this week and the timing is just right — its mission to preserve Black history is more relevant now than ever
huffpost.com
The African American Civil War Museum Reopens To Honor The Black Soldiers Who Changed History
The museum recently held its grand reopening in Washington’s historic U Street Corridor.
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Kris Ripper (ze/zir) @krisripper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wild take. Yes, getting a computer to do a bunch of the work does make it easier to do that work. Yes, the art is bad, in that case. No one is stopping you doing your own bad art, but have the decency to actually do it, like the rest of us out here *actually creating stuff*.
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
dr seuss ass rhetoric from these ppl like "what if it was in a house what if it was with a mouse"
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Kris Ripper (ze/zir) @krisripper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Isn't it wonderful? It gave me a moment of peace and joy in my day! 🪼
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Kris Ripper (ze/zir) @krisripper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You need this in your day. Trust.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People aren’t faking their disabilities, they’re faking being well. We know society hates us. We know we will be judged for using assistive devices. Many of us take years to get the courage to lean in to accommodations. Stop judging. Help us build a more inclusive world.
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Recently I saw a very comprehensive list of “famous people you didn’t know were bisexual” and I was not on it or in the comments I figured that it’s probably just because I’m not really that famous, but maybe it’s also because no one would ever think I’m not bi
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 24/09/2026
We exist under tyrannical, undemocratic conditions and are acutely aware how impossible it is to hold anyone in power accountable. But we don't really acknowledge how this awareness chafes at us, moves us to despair and grief and rage that sublimates into viciousness and ire at those we can reach.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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Kris Ripper (ze/zir) @krisripper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I keep having to gently let down my East Coast folks, who were hoping for a miracle (i.e. a charismatic white democrat dude who wasn't a corporate stooge opportunist scumbag).
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We got 400 problems in this country and homeless folks and trans folks and immigrants ain't a goddamn one of 'em.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026
This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...
reason.com
Texas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphlets
The case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Meet the first new cat species discovered in 100 years: Leopardus tilcayo
nationalgeographic.com
Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Happy National Birth Center Week! I look forward to continue working alongside birth centers like Birth Detroit and Birth Center Equity to build a future where every mom and baby survives child birth in our country.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We need to start aggressively shunning anyone even remotely associated with private equity firms bc they are RUINING EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE AND I AM TIRED
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Kris Ripper (ze/zir) @krisripper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm gonna keep reposting this every time I see it... until I actually do it. 🤔
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Kris Ripper (ze/zir) @krisripper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My fellow authors, Do not be this author. Respectfully, Me
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Kris Ripper (ze/zir) @krisripper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Finally, a religious organization literally doing what Jesus would do.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Maybe instead of all these thinkpieces about how to cut corners we tax the fuck out of the 1%.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
rip annie dillard
One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
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The Rooster @rooster.info · 14/09/2026
People like this never seem to realize that through their cowardice, they have, in fact, taken a side. Or maybe they do and they just also lack the courage to say that.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a big one: Brown University is searching for the next director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Please help us identify excellent candidates to lead this signature program into the future. Please write me with ideas; please share in your networks; please apply.
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Brown University - Professor and Director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice | H-Net
1. Academic Accomplishment. We seek a scholar with a strong scholarly record, including excellence in both research and teaching, appropriate for appointment at the level of full professor in a social science, humanities, or arts department at Brown.
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Kris Ripper (ze/zir) @krisripper.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Super interesting!
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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. NuhDaw-Eegah-Ayhee AhLay AyNaw-Yee-AyHee-NuhDaw
Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are sun and moon and pronounced NuhDaw-Eegah-Ayhee AhLay AyNaw-Yee-AyHee-NuhDaw
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Shawn Hudson @stludson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is one of the things I try to emphasize in US history over and over. Slavery was a choice. Compromising with the South over and over as they whined and complained was a choice. Allowing Jim Crow was a choice. There were always alternatives, it didn't need "modern" views, they were always there.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Hey, did you hear the news? All my life, Ive been hearing stories about the true size of Africa. About how it was intentionally shrunken on maps, while other countries were made bigger. Well, they voted on it today, & ONLY ONE country voted against it. The US www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...
aljazeera.com
UN votes to adopt new world map that reflects Africa’s true size
The widely-used Mercator map is often criticised for visually exaggerating and centralising Western nations.
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Kris Ripper (ze/zir) @krisripper.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Meanwhile, my trans kid could have gotten the medical care he needs three years ago, but now he's gotta wait until these clowns are out of office AND whoever comes next prioritizes unknotting this mess. But what's daily dysphoria and bullying to a bunch of transphobic capitalist asshats?
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Kris Ripper (ze/zir) @krisripper.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I've been nailed by those with people's email lists as well. I'll get "what did I do wrong" emails and I'm like ... I just need to see fewer things in my inbox right now, it wasn't personal! I had no idea people paid such close attention. I would never know if people stopped following me on sm.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 04/09/2026
Labour: There's a global heating emergency, which we're actively trying to make worse, so you'll need to buy a load more food you can't afford, because we're too busy harassing trans people to do anything about it.
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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“Many white male students have brought to my classroom an insistence on the authority of experience… The politics of race and gender within white supremacist patriarchy grants them this “authority” without their having to name the desire for it” bell hooks
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Nicola Griffith SHE IS HERE out now! @nicolaz.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
You will be shocked, shocked to hear that "The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong"! 🙄 Duh! OF COURSE IT'S WRONG. But now there's a cool article listing the biological and evidentiary reasons, along with nifty diagrams. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
Beginning of article from Scientific American sowing a lovely orange-toned painting of a naked woman running with a spearBeginning of an article reading "Even if you're not an anthropologist, you've probably encountered one of this
field's most influential notions, known as Man the Hunter. The theory
proposes that hunting was a major driver of human evolution and that men
carried this activity out to the exclusion of women. It holds that human ancestors had a
division of labor, rooted in biological differences between males and females, in which
males evolved to hunt and provide, and females tended to children and domestic
duties. It assumes that males are physically superior to females and that pregnancy
and child-rearing reduce or eliminate a female's ability to hunt.
Man the Hunter has dominated the study of human evolution for nearly half a century
and pervaded popular culture. It is represented in museum dioramas and textbook
figures, Saturday morning cartoons and feature films. The thing is, it's wrong."
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
read for filth at the dentist's office i am extremely late & the receptionist was like what's the excuse this time wendy 💀💀💀💀 it was elden ring
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David Wynne @davidwynne.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I really think the big Potter problem is that most people who aren’t terminally online genuinely don’t know how active and influential Rowling is in pursuit of her bigoted agenda. They think we’re just angry about her views, rather than her actions. I think it’s important to tell people.
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Kris Ripper (ze/zir) @krisripper.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Same. Not that I hate what I do, but certainly I would choose different projects if the bill-paying potential was the same. First-bump to you, my fellow creative.
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
liberal: [hurling kindling onto a pyre] trans woman tied to the stake: hey could you not liberal: if I don't then I might wind up there with you trans woman: you could cut me loose and we could fight together liberal: [lighting a torch] it's like you want the bad guys to win or something
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 02/09/2026
I am a scientist – and the answer is climate change. Yes, there is nuance. Yes, it could take a long time to identify the precise mechanisms. But there is no question why ice and snow-related disasters are on the rise. Our planet is warming at an unprecedented rate, and humans are responsible.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I can't say what I want to say, but I'm just noting the ongoing attempts to "take down" Black academics with plagiarism accusations, while *gestures* this seems to have minimal career or reputational impacts
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026
There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
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Kris Ripper (ze/zir) @krisripper.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This reminds me of Caitlyn Jenner as well. "I had no idea this terrible thing I personally promoted would come back to bite me" when it should have been clear from the beginning. I lie to myself for sure. (That fourth donut definitely won't make me sick...) Being ignorant in public is... a choice.
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Kris Ripper (ze/zir) @krisripper.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I literally laughed out loud
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
We *still* criminalize and stigmatize young Black teens who have children.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
You can only get what you are organized to take.
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Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
"Still punk as fuck" I say quietly to myself as I increase the zoom level to 125% in Google Docs
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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The word is September and pronounced dooleestee
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