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AI @openbuddha.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Happy Birthday, John Brown.

Black and white portrait photo of John Brown

AI @openbuddha.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Finished another week long sesshin (Zen intensive retreat). I wind up sleeping about 4.5 hours a night. youtube.com/clip/UgkxnTs...

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AI @openbuddha.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The /r/therapists subreddit is such a bastion of privilege and hand wringing by oh so put upon (younger) folks, says grizzly Gen X me. Put on your big boy/girl pants, folks. www.reddit.com/r/therapists/

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Therapists

A supportive international community for therapists, social workers, counselors, psychologists, and other mental health professionals (who are actively seeing clients in a clinical capacity) to gather...

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AI @openbuddha.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Every now and then I look up what Brendan Eich is up too and then back away and have to wash the taint off.

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AI @openbuddha.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Nothing about the last three years of tech and its industry makes me sad I quit after 29 years and am just a therapist now.

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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

"I will not stop until this is over! And I know my fellow citizens of Minneapolis will not rest, and will not let them rest, until this is over." ICE protester attests to Trump being UNPREPARED for Minneapolis and its people's response. LIVE NOW ⬇️

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inhumanist marxist hegelian maoist 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

SWORDS UP, WANDERERS. THE PEOPLE ARE WAITING. MAKE SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL HAPPEN. WE ARE ON YOUR SIDE. 10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN is an Ultraviolent Tropical Gothic Xianxia RPG. Martial artists and mystics wander and survive a Buddho-Communist Dark Fantasy world. Out for free!👇🏽

10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN, ALL THE PROLETARIAT WILL SHEAR AWAY THE BOURGEOISIE

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alexthoth @alexthoth.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

After reading Carl Jung’s The Red Book, I decided to create my own mandala. #projektlunarsigil #chaosky #occultsky #witchsky #art #weirdart #occultart #occult #magick

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inhumanist marxist hegelian maoist 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

What if killing God was the first step to enlightenment? A forgotten warrior walks a path of mysticism, revolution, and god-spine shattering to find out. GOD OBLITERATING VAJRA. Keris-and-Talisman. Not pseudo-Chinese. Southeast Asian Maoist Wuxia. www.royalroad.com/fiction/1044...

RAXRI UTTARA upon the Utter Islands

GOD OBLITERATING VAJRA <1>
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AI @openbuddha.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Douthat and Brooks continue to vie for the covetted "most out of touch, fash friendly, New York Times opinion writer." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

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Opinion | The Epstein Story? Count Me Out.

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AI @openbuddha.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

@peterclines.bsky.social can I ask why the castaway appeared in the shape of an elder thing that last time? 😀

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17/11/2025

Online behavioral advertising has made surveillance the business model of the internet. Privacy Badger fights for a better web by incentivizing companies to respect your privacy. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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Online Tracking is Out of Control—Privacy Badger Can Help You Fight

Every time you browse the web, you're being tracked. That’s why EFF created Privacy Badger, a free, open source browser extension used by millions to fight corporate surveillance and take back

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 17/11/2025

#OtD 17 Nov 1983 six Indigenous and mestizo people founded the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico. So if you know five people who think like you, start a group! Learn more about the Zapatistas in these books: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Musee of Arts et Metiers in Paris has this Trump game in its hall of failures next to spaceship crashes...

trump board game similar to monopoly re the pieces and his face on the front

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AI @openbuddha.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

When people say Trump runs the country like a business, I think we can all see why all of his businesses went bankrupt. The man couldn't run a lemonade stand.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Dick Cheney was proud to have normalized state-sponsored torture. That, and the dead of Iraq in an unjust war, constitute his entire legacy. “That’s not funny” is a meme-y cliche but I don’t care about the friend he shot or our jokes about it. Cheney is Kissinger level. He made the world worse.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats' which is out now in the UK, USA, Canada, France, Spain and Germany. Order from your local bookshop or online: www.tomgauld.com/

Title: Know Your Acronyms

Image: four colourful panels each containing four figures representing the disciplines listed.

1. STEM
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics

2. STET
Sword-swallowing, , trapeze, escapology and tightrope

3. STEP
Swindling, theft, extortion and piracy

4. STEW
Seance, telekinesis, exorcism and witchcraft

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From 'Physics for cats' by tom gauld - order it at www.tomgauld.com

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Say what you will about the French aristocracy, at least they had some very seriously gilded palaces, fancy ballrooms, and truly shocking sex scandals before the guillotines got going. ...Hang on, I'm getting a note.

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Erika D. Smith @erika-d-smith.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The Los Angeles model… “In the last several weeks, Chicagoans have formed volunteer groups to monitor their neighborhoods for federal immigration agents, posting alerts on Facebook and in Signal group chats when agents are seen.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 15/10/2025

“I was a fairly conventional hippie.” The actor Tim Curry talks about taking LSD on the Eiffel Tower, going to Studio 54 in the 1970s, and the making of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

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Tim Curry Does the Time Warp

The actor and singer discusses the origins of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” his relationship with David Bowie, and the joy of working with Miss Piggy.

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Jamie Delaney L. @ljamied.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

#IAmANTIFAscist Antifa isn’t an organization. It’s a movement of true American patriots standing up against fascism, which is characterized by authoritarianism, nationalism (including racial nationalism and religious nationalism), hierarchy, elitism, and militarism.

Poster art that reads, “Antifa means antifascist” across the top. There is an image of Wonder Woman towering over. She’s holding her shield on her left and pointing her sword down toward the viewer. She’s wearing her armor and her golden lasso hangs coiled on her right hip. Her left leg is forward. The bottom of the poster reads, “Proudly fighting fascism since 1941”. There is also a “#IAmANTIFAscist”

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Hm. I participated in a multi-line BBS in the 1980s and that may help explain my relative resilience.

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Sophia Turner (Mara out now!) 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophiajt.com · 14/10/2025

@demongrrl.gay showed me the promo for the NZ women's firefighter calendar and... idk I'm pretty sure this thing *starts* fires. 🔥🔥🔥

Exceedingly hot women firefighters baring midrifts in firefighter pants

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AI @openbuddha.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Is the diameter of the medal of freedom greater than .30?

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 13/10/2025

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Yes, we indeed have a serious problem.

A tweet by Robert Reich reads:
“The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.”

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 07/10/2025

Take the 5 min. I access everything except slack, the public library, medical device monitor, and email from my browser these days

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AI @openbuddha.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

The head of the motherfuckin' FBI.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

28 is a free digital magazine about tabletop gaming, 28mm miniatures, roleplaying games and art. It is amazing. Get your free issues here ⬇️ 28-mag.com

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Welcome to 28, a collection of free digital magazines about tabletop gaming, miniatures, roleplaying games and art.

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AI @openbuddha.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

You know it's a weird day when your pleasure in used bookstore finds are vintage 70s sicence fiction paperbacks and a book on the Zen precepts.

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