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Mary Hawkins

@maryhawkins.bsky.social
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Art Director, Animator + Designer Activist + emerita board member, Rise and Resist Head Jeerleader, Gotham Roller Derby maryhawkins.com

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Brian Stillman @brianxrayfilms.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
My new album TERMINAL DAYS is up for pre-order now! Anti-Fascist Industrial Metal Madness! NegativeAgent.Ampwall.com/album/Terminaldays
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Nick Wolf @nickwolfscm.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Thanks to @brianxrayfilms.bsky.social and @sethpolansky.bsky.social for the chat, and make sure you all check out Igniting the Spark!
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Today's 1st read: a dense-but-good scholarly article that I've had open as a tab forever. Identifying seemingly "small" acts of resistance enables people to see themselves as capable and resilient instead of broken or depressed. TW: violence + assault. www.responsebasedpractice.com/wp-content/u...
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Our collective loss of existential appetite is a healthy response to a profoundly unhealthy situation. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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This Isn't Burnout
Why Your Creative Job Isn’t Fun Anymore
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Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Gonna take a second to brag about my awesome wife @maryhawkins.bsky.social, who illustrated these PSAs for swimming safety in NYC. She also created animated versions. It’s wild seeing her art on busses, in subway stations, on kiosks, etc, and I’m super proud of her! #NYC #PSAs #SwimSafety #Art
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This morning's reading: "while the digital world has removed all friction, the physical world is where the friction still lives. Not the good kind... but the bad kind: the exhaustion of trying to hold together systems that no one’s willing to invest in anymore." kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-v...
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The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction
AI Chatbots, Newark, and the West Village Girls
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
www.itsnicethat.com/articles/the...
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Irasutoya: the best-known illustrator in Japan, that you’ve probably never heard of
Our Tokyo correspondent tells the fascinating story of the one-man illustration machine behind the free-to-use clip art service that’s shaped the nation’s visual language.
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
We're still hoping to have Gotham games here, but in the meantime... www.change.org/p/say-no-to-...
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Sign the Petition
Say NO to Pickleball and YES to Expanding Roller Skating at The LeFrak Center
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André Treiber @andrebttx.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
This protest sign hits pretty damn hard, big props to this teacher
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Today's reading: "We create more than ever, but it weighs nothing... movement isn’t meaning. ... Light things shape culture, but rarely shape us. ... Creation [is] a process of becoming....You don’t just create heavy things. You become someone who can." www.workingtheorys.com/p/make-somet...
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Make Something Heavy
We're creating more than ever, but it weighs nothing.
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This morning's reading... I'm hopeful-not-hopeful for our solarpunk future where not all of us make it? Ooof. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘All of his guns will do nothing for him’: lefty preppers are taking a different approach to doomsday
Liberals in the US make up about 15% of the prepping scene and their numbers are growing. Their fears differ from their better-known rightwing counterparts – as do their methods
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Alice Guy-Blaché, an early director who made thousands of films (at one point, her studio was putting out three a week!) but was erased out of the story of early cinema history... www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-...
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Alice Guy-Blaché: female filmmaking pioneer
Alice Guy-Blaché was one of the first people to make a narrative film, and she helped create over a thousand films as either director, producer or writer.
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The Sky Has No Edge... Stop motion with mosaics from Invisible Friends, a group of expat Russian animators. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-lc...
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У неба нет края - Sky has no edge
YouTube video by Юра Богуславский
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...
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How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement
AOC, solidarity, and people power.
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Reading this a little late, because: firehose, but... "The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration." newrepublic.com/post/192660/...
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Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
"If liberal democracy is to thrive and not just survive in the 21st century, we must develop a deeper understanding of the attraction of alternative political conceptions and their envisioned good life that competes with it." www.noemamag.com/from-statecr...
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From Statecraft To Soulcraft | NOEMA
How the world’s illiberal powers like Russia, China and increasingly the U.S. rule through their visions of the good life.
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Postcards4CA @postcards4ca.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Thank you for voting!
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
“I am tired of mainstream media pretending that neutrality and gullibility are the same thing.” Thank you to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for that gem. Catching up on email newsletters, and that was lovely…
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A hopeful history… I didn’t know the full story of Muncie Indiana: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
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What Felt Impossible Became Possible | dansinker.com
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
substack.com/home/post/p-... "It doesn’t reward depth, patience, or complexity. Instead, it rewards the immediate & the easily digestible. ...What does that do to creativity? Inspiration? ...what ideas never had the chance to grow because they were harvested too early ...their smallest form?"
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Instagram and the Creative Process
Why are we still here?
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This morning's reading: "this is dark stuff: A $160b AI company and a $2 trillion tech giant invoking the need to maintain technological—and implicitly, military—superiority over China...to justify eroding artists’ already meager rights and protections." www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/openai-and...
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OpenAI and Google's dark new campaign to dismantle artists' protections
OpenAI and Google have cozied up to Trump's imperialist approach to AI for a shot at tearing down artists' copyright protections.
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Members of the House AND the Senate are home during recess NOW through Sunday, March 23rd. This is our time to send them a message. Welcome home @schumer.senate.gov 👋 New Yorkers are calling on you to #Resign Times Square ✍️ @karinschall.bsky.social #StopTheCoup #FightFascism #RiseandResist
A photograph taken in Times Square shows chalking on the road in the foreground and hectic Times Square street scene in the background with crowds of people and bright lights from billboards and tall buildings. 

The chalking is in white and yellow. Large capital letters spell out: IT'S TIME TO "CHUCK" SCHUMER

Senator Chuck Schumer has got to go. Send your message to the Senator in whatever form you can, whether by phone, email, social media or out in the world like this. 

Join the Resistance!
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This evening's reading: a long, loving tribute to Gorton, a font whose letterforms that were right in front of us the whole time, aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
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The hardest working font in Manhattan
A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Today's morning reading: a whole set of bad practices in leadership and work/working-together cultures, written nearly 25 years ago by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun. I bet your favorites are on there... Go check! www.cwsworkshop.org/PARC_site_B/...
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White Supremacy Culture
This is a list of characteristics of white supremacy culture which show up in our organizations. Culture is powerful precisely because it is so present and at the same time so very difficult to name or identify. The characteristics listed below are damaging because they are used as norms and standards without being pro-actively named or chosen by the group. They are damaging because they promote white supremacy thinking. They are damaging to both people of color and to white people. Organizations that are people of color led or a majority people of color can also demonstrate many damaging characteristics of white supremacy culture.
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Our friends, Resistance Revival Chorus, were on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social with Paris Paloma. They sang the theme song to our Womxn’s March! Pure beauty & power 😭 Join us SATURDAY, MARCH 8 at 11am in Washington Square Park. @50501movement.bsky.social @womensmarch.bsky.social #womensmarch #Resist
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Basically bookmarking this for myself: a project to categorize all those seen-it-everywhere aesthetics and design movements from the last few decades. (h/t to Patrick Butler for sending this my way...) cari.institute/aesthetics
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CARI | Aesthetics
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning to fire more than 80,000 employees.
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
So they really think I’m going to spend the next four years hanging on every word he vomits? Haha, that’s cute…and not going to happen. Anyway, tonight’s read:
One day, everyone will have always been against this by Omar El Akkad
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I don't think I was prepared for this to be the first film I watched this morning... Amazing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=49-p...
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Perpetuo (Joško Marušić, 1978.)
YouTube video by Zagreb Film: The Art of Animation
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/03/2025
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org
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We're not done yet | 18F
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Check Tesla Takedown for event details and organizing information. If there isn’t one in your area, start one! Aim for a 12 PM gathering at your local showroom. Next week, let’s make an even bigger impact and show them how many of us there really are! Will you join?
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Me: You know, I should really read something fun for #womensHistoryMonth. My TBR pile:
Me, holding up a copy of the book “Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen & Girlbosses Against Liberation”, written by Sophie Lewis and published in 2025 by Haymarket Press. It’s got an orangey-vermillion cover with a bold typographic treatment in middling grey where it looks kind of like the words are just a long shadow of he letterforms.

Details everyone else might miss: I’m wearing Pride socks and my
manicure is neon-pink cats on a black background. My bedroom floor has long fake grass instead of a rug because the hardware store had a bunch of those and I thought it would be more fun than shopping for a rug.
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
In 2018 Rise and Resist organized powerful protests and awareness campaigns in IDC districts to defeat Cuomo’s fake “democrats.” We need to remind people about this part of Cuomo’s history. He has never been on our side.
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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Very fitting that Cuomo announced his campaign on the first day of Women's History Month. Women will make him history. #hellnocuomo
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Sonni @sonnimun.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I have supported DEI and Affirmative Action as something that we need as temporary measure until we have true equality but in one month Trump/Musk have convinced me that DEI and Affirmative Action must be be built into our system permanently.
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I've found over the decades that some of my best long-term/slow-burn friends have been former crushes (incoming or outgoing). There's something about caring for someone enough to consider starting a romance but realizing that y'all shouldn't that alchemizes well. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/s...
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Rules for Staying Close to Exes
Never talk about sex. Especially the sex you had with each other.
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Sonni @sonnimun.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
For those who are Catholics & practice Lent. Would love to see this boycott of harmful corporations be incorporated into Lent. Isn’t this consistent with the values espoused in the New Testament? I am not religious but grew up in New Orleans so Lent after Mardi Gras was a thing.
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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 27/02/2025
This! If you can switch from Whole Foods to a different grocery store and buy your books from bookshop.org instead of Amazon, that’s still a big step even if you feel tied to Amazon for other items. If everyone divested 30% that’s more than if a few people divest 100%.
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 26/02/2025
This is *really* good. Definitely worth a read. On The Walll and the appeal of fascism, and being a Gifted Kid and the way that distorts you.
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Thing I read this morning: "I don’t know exactly that I have some sort of prescription to offer. I don’t wish to suggest ..that any of us should deal with 'reforming' bad men. But maybe, at least, we can take each other’s loneliness seriously." magdalene.substack.com/p/the-future...
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The Future Childless Cat Guys
Single, childless older women have long been the cruel cultural avatar of loneliness and social failure. But as rates of single young men rise, that portrait is going to change.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Trump threatened to sue journalists, authors, and book publishers who use anonymous sources. Granting certain sources anonymity is a common journalistic practice, especially when sources fear retribution.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 25/02/2025
So they started out with ~100 existing staffers, 60 have now resigned. *21 FEDERAL TECHNOLOGY STAFFERS RESIGNED FROM DOGE, AP SAYS
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 20 civil service employees resigned Tuesday from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, saying they were refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”
“We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations,” the 21 staffers wrote in a joint resignation letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press. “However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.”
The employees also warned that many of those enlisted by Musk to help him slash the size of the federal government under President Donald Trump's administration were political ideologues who did not have the necessary skills or experience for the task ahead of them.
The mass resignation of engineers, data scientists and product managers is a temporary setback for Musk and the Republican president's tech-driven purge of the federal workforce. It comes amid a flurry of court challenges that have sought to stall, stop or unwind their efforts to fire or coerce thousands of government workers out of jobs.
The staffers who resigned worked for what was once known as the United States Digital Service, an office established during President Barack Obama's administration after the botched rollout of Healthcare.gov, the web portal that millions of Americans use to sign up for insurance plans through the Democrat's signature health care law.
All had previously held senior roles at such tech companies as Google and Amazon and wrote in their resignation letter that they joined the government out of a sense of duty to public service.
Trump's empowerment of Musk upended that. The day after Trump's inauguration, the staffers wrote, they were called into a series of interviews that foreshadowed the secretive and disruptive work of Musk's' Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
According to the staffers, people wearing White House vis…
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Attorney General Pam Bondi disbanded an FBI task force investigating foreign influence operations, including those targeting U.S. elections. Additionally, she restricted enforcement actions against individuals who fail to disclose lobbying on behalf of foreign governments.
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
New Yorkers: we have an assignment. We have 5 strong options for mayor on a ballot with 5 spaces. Learn about: @bradlander.bsky.social @jessicaramosqns.bsky.social @zellnor.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @blakefornyc.bsky.social
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Jackie Rudin @jackierudin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
With less than 24 hours notice 1,000 people showed up for an Emergency Community rally at The Stonewall Memorial Monument to fight back against the NPS removing the T and Q from the Stonewall website. There is NO LGB without the T (or Q). We will NOT be erased and we will NOT leave anyone behind.
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Uuuggghhh -- I just got a spam text that literally started with hashtag-FoodBenefits-hashtag and then said standard spam junk about how my account had been put on hold. There's so much chaos out there (and more to come). People who need/have food benefits is not a group I want scammers to target.
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Umberto Eco put together a now-famous list of 14 attributes of fascistic states. I'm going to discuss each of them in hopes this helps ppl understand that fascism is not just a buzzword. We're going to go through these by theme, so strap in. 🧵
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Yes please! www.usermag.co/p/freeourfee...
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A $30M plan to take back social media from billionaires
+ Pervert winter, robot accessories, Snoop Dogg's LinkedIn, buzzcuts to break the internet, and Elon Musk gamer stolen valor
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
“A particularly heinous villain’: a disdain for Musk sparked protests across US. Members of Rise and Resist pictured in the Guardian’s story on the Resistance. Join us tomorrow, Monday, in Union Square and 14th St at 1pm. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #StoptheCoup #EndOligarchy #resist
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‘A particularly heinous villain’: a disdain for Musk has sparked protests across US
50501 group gained national force with Musk as a target and is now working globally to thwart Trump administration
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Mary Hawkins @maryhawkins.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
"The pivotal cultural moment came ..when William Shatner went to space. More than anyone, he represented that older, more idealistic view of technology... [he] finally realised that he was not in Star Trek. He was in Idiocracy. And the rest of us are too." iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...
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How to resist the tech overlords
Big tech has now made its position clear. It is on the far-right. Here's what happens next.
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