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Cindy Phan @cindyphanauthor.com · 18/08/2025

I didn’t notice it growing behind the garden box so now please say hello to my giant zucchini son 👶🏻

A giant pale green zucchini growing from a garden box so large my hand can barely left it by its bottom.

My arm cradling the giant zucchini, which is at least as long as my forearm plus hand, against my chest like a baby.

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

🧵 “Target is experiencing its 6th straight month of declining foot traffic, with store visits down nearly 8% and a $12 billion loss in market value following its rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.” Heads up, anti-DEI investors www.blackenterprise.com/target-decli...

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FAFO Still In Full Effect At Target As Foot Traffic Continues To Decline For Retail Giant

Since Target decided to eliminate its DEI initiatives, Black people have been standing on business. The corporation continues to decline.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19/08/2025

I hope she takes all their homes and cars and retirement.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Have any prominent elected Dems committed to dismantling ICE if/when they reclaim power? Because that frankly seems like an absolute bare minimum at this point. You can't just have a massively funded armed gang of hard-right stormtroopers embedded across the country & return to normal.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 17/08/2025

I don't know how to tell people on Bluesky that yes, you actually *do* need Black people on board for all your political and social aims. You literally can't go around us, cancel us, or ignore us. Every time y'all do, everyone suffers.

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ginger @gingerest.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

If you are suffering as a customer during a strike, that is because management is intentionally passing on the suffering to you, which means you have common cause with the workers. This is so whether the management is of an airline, a hospital, or a retail establishment.

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geneva 🖍️ nycc I-07 @gdbee.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Hear me out... Dinosaur, but if they were...dog.

A series of illustrations of cutie dinosaurs acting like dogs. Drawn by gdbeeart Aug 20205

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Usual June @usualjune.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Hey Bluesky! Meet our indie game, Usual June. It's an action adventure game about summer break, ghosts, dark secrets, and the end of the world. Developed by @finjico.bsky.social 👑 Wishlist ➡️ bit.ly/3NjX3c1 #gamedev #indiegame #usualjune

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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 18/08/2025

We've got new stickers in-stock from @stickiemi.bsky.social 🤩

A haphazard pile of stickers. The stickers are orange and feature illustrations of crows and the words "no one is illegal on stolen land."

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joshawol @joshawol.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

prodigy & gentle sketch

gentle puts an arm around Prodigy, who looks at him

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I spent 17 years as a social worker. 17 years of watching colleagues try to do the most with & people try to survive on a social safety net that barely works & shrank annually. The funding has taken deeper cuts since. To watch the ruling class criminalize the poverty they knowingly create enrages me

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I think a lot of these “perfect is the enemy of good so we’re ok with anti-trans candidates” are just privileged white people facing adversity for the first time in their entire lives and are so fucking fragile and terrified they’re willing to do anything and kill anyone to protect themselves.

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 15/08/2025

In an interview, union organizer Chris Smalls talks about joining the Freedom Flotilla, confronting Israeli forces, and solidarity between Palestine and the US labor movement.

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Chris Smalls Speaks Out After His Journey to Gaza

In an interview, the union organizer talks about joining the Freedom Flotilla, confronting Israeli forces, and solidarity between Palestine and the US labor movement.

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geneva 🖍️ nycc I-07 @gdbee.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Cute short hair 🥹

Portrait illustration of a young woman without a care in the world in her eyes. She has short coily hair with two twists, large glasses and a pink tank top. She's surrounded by pink florals, stars and green-white butterflies. Drawn by gdbeeart in Aug 2025

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13/08/2025

"To be accused of speaking too loudly about one injustice but not others by someone who doesn't care about any of them is to be told, simply, to keep quiet." Omar El Akkad, ONE DAY EVERYONE WILL ALWAYS HAVE BEEN AGAINST THIS

Photo of a page from Omar El Akkad's ONE DAY EVERYONE WILL ALWAYS HAVE BEEN AGAINST THIS that reads:

The obvious charge of hypocrisy looms over this work, always. Refrain from engaging with one organization because of its ties to a genocide but not the uncountable number of other organizations who do as well? Call for divestment from fossil fuel companies and yet still use electricity? Agitate for a better world in any way and yet continue to exist within it?

The purpose of this kind of accusation is never moral concern. To be accused of speaking too loudly about one injustice but not others by someone who doesn't care about any of them is to be told, simply, to keep quiet.

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Lambda Legal @lambdalegal.org · 13/08/2025

👏WIN: Yesterday in our case against Premera Blue Cross over their policy to deny coverage for gender-affirming chest surgery for trans patients under 18, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington affirmed its April ruling that the policy unlawfully discriminated based on sex. 🧵

Dark blue graphic with white text that reads, "VICTORY! Court Affirms Ruling Finding Premera Blue Cross Discriminated Against Trans Adolescents"

Dark blue graphic with quote from caption of this post.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Be ready for apps and sites you visit regularly, particularly social media, music, video, and news sites, to suddenly lock you out unless you submit to their nefarious surveillance. Download, screenshot, archive, and backup anything you want to save. Protect your privacy.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The increasing spread of “age verification” laws to access websites, is leading to many sites blocking access unless users allow themselves to be doxed by giving up your biometrics and/or other personal information.

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kia speaks @kiaspeaks.us · 13/08/2025

Up reading about data centers’ impact on our communities (as one is being proposed in my neighborhood) and…the short of it is if you use AI you’re going to hell. 😭😭😭

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

More of us might just admit we don’t have a political plan to deal with this level of repression. And that doesn’t have to be defeat but just a more honest starting point for trying to figure out what to do.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 13/08/2025

The more early support you show for Black authors, the more Black authors there will be.

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 12/08/2025

As the end of my summer contract approaches, I am seeking new opportunities for paid work in a remote capacity, so please share this post widely! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 Some past clients include Doctors Without Borders, NASCAR, Journalists for Human Rights, etc. Check out my website here: www.EquitableForAll.com

Against a memo background, text states:

KRYSTAL KAVITA JAGOO, MSW.

Finally booking virtual equity services from September onwards, so please reach out for:
- Workshop Facilitation
- Writing Support (Coaching, grant writing, proofreading, editing, etc.)
- Tutoring in Social Work, Sociology, etc.
- Access Coordination, Project Management, etc.
- Some yet-to-be-determined service that draws on my skills as a past therapist, who remains an equity practitioner, educator, artist, etc.

Email me here:
Krystal@EquitableForAll.com

www.EquitableForAll.com

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

under present day rampant online censorship, and the way it’s affecting queer art & games… it’s a good time to point out that there’s a lot of DIY ways to distribute your work that don’t rely on a third party… like… github.com/9001/copyparty “turn almost any device into a file server”

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GitHub - 9001/copyparty: Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps

Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps - 9001/copyparty

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Protect the wisdom protectors. The journalists, librarians, teachers, educators, documentarians, caretakers, creators, artists, elders, writers, history recorders, and archivists. Empire will always go after those that tell the truth. Protect the wisdom protectors. Be a wisdom protector.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 01/08/2025

Oh by the way, don’t forget you can ask your library to order nearly any book you want to read but don’t want to buy. And as authors we love libraries buying our books & readers being able to access them through libraries.

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joshawol @joshawol.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

your pal Val superman

pore trait of val zodd, super man of Earth 2

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Many devices, other than the obvious phones, can also transmit trackable signals. These can include smart ear buds, headphones, smart glasses, key fobs, location tags, watches, and health wearables. No need to carry everything with you everywhere. Don’t leave breadcrumbs when you don’t need to.

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joshawol @joshawol.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

three's company. the signal, batman, superman

Duke teases Jace but forgets Val has super-hearing. He keeps the bit going but Jace hangs up.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

So I vaguely recalled in the wake of Sweeney jeans ad discourse (which I was genuinely trying to avoid) that at some point I thought I learned that Black people gave us jeans — I just couldn’t recall the source until today. There is a doc which this article summarizes, with sources cited. Cheers.

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Enslaved Blacks invented blue jeans

A few weeks ago, on Feb. 14 to be exact, I tweeted the following:

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joshawol @joshawol.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

alien contact superman, batman

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I still remember the camaraderie of the early days of Covid. For a moment it felt like we were going to put aside rugged individualism & embrace a future that was more community minded. It felt like disabled people might get a real seat at the table. That hope being ripped away still hurts.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/08/2025

popular anti-fascism as taxpayer revolt...might have some legs

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

A helpful database to search California public records about all the violence by police so that we can abolish them. It is built by UC Berkeley and Stanford University, and is hosted by the SF Chronicle, LA Times, KQED, and Cal Matters. policerecords.kqed.org

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Police Records - KQED News

Search California public records about law enforcement violence and misconduct.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Hey fam, my new book, Read This When Things Fall Apart, comes out in three months. That means now is the critical window for preorders, which help get books on shelves, in libraries, and into the hands of the people who need them most. www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/vCQt68D...

The book cover for Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, Edited by Kelly Hayes. The book cover features an artistic rendering of a person with long hair wading into a body of water at night in a wilderness.

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mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

you KNOW this picture killed in 1875. people were busting the fuck up at a dog with a pipe. dogs don’t smoke

Dog with pipe in mouth (1875) attributed to the Minnesota Historical Society. A sepia toned photo of a fluffy white dog sitting on a table with a pipe in their mouth.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

$[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]$

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 01/08/2025

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

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TallFroGuy - Shape Decider @tallfroguy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

children in the playpen must be supervised at all times #critterposting

Crude drawing of a bird and her chicks. Maybe his. As the british swinger said in a moment of drunken honesty, i’m not good at sexing birds.

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joshawol @joshawol.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

academy xoxo(2x) tag, prodigy #xmen

tag and prodigy touch noses, psi NRG glimmers round em

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