petrisaurus.bsky.social
@petrisaurus.bsky.social
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Queer Seattle artist just trying to make it through. Mutual support is the only way. Expect politics, art, and cool bugs/fungi. Not here to debate you.
Queer Seattle artist just trying to make it through. Mutual support is the only way. Expect politics, art, and cool bugs/fungi. Not here to debate you.
!["I wish I would have known him, because I would have taken him in," Diana [the trucker's mom] said at one point. "I got a spare room." (Note: Pierre Damas Bel was not homeless or housing insecure)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4vhxkgaipd5kkbv72tgkuy6o/bafkreiedyk33sk5o3ckwyuzvqzcw2but547je3nwjt6edvvwqsg5zlbvvy)
![Bluesky post by user Ben Wheeler (@benjiwheeler.bsky.social) which reads "A frustrating thing about the IS [transcription note: should be US] medical system is how hard it is to get someone on the phone about to ask quick medical questions. 'Hey, my baby has a fever of 102, at what point should I bring her to an emergency room?' People scoff at using AI in these cases, but what's the alternative?" Post was made at 7:11am July 24, 2026 and has no likes, comments or reposts.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4vhxkgaipd5kkbv72tgkuy6o/bafkreihsyzgsvfatgxva7ustvihxtod2emkkho5xaurnpzpzrqbhic7utm)
![Image: poll results for 4 questions about Black civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s US. Results of each question are shown on a bar with pro-Black responses in blue, anti-Black responses in red, and neutral responses in gray.
First section is titled "Freedom Riders, sit-ins (May 1961)" with two questions.
Q1: Do you approve or disapprove of what the "Freedom Riders" are doing? Results: 22% approve, 61% disapprove, 18% no opinion.
Q2: Do you think "sit-ins" at lunch counters, "freedom buses" and other demonstrations by Negroes will hurt or help the Negro's chances of being integrated in the South? Results: 28% help, 57% hurt, 16% no opinion.
Second section is titled "March on Washington (August 1963)" with one question.
Q: What are your feelings about this [proposed mass civil rights rally]? Results: 23% favorable, 60% unfavorable, 17% no opinion/undecided.
Third section is titled "Whites on 'demonstrations by Negroes' (October 1966)".
Q: All in all, do you feel the demonstrations by Negroes on civil rights have helped more or hurt more in the advancement of Negro rights? Results: 15% helps, 85% hurts.
At the bottom of the image are the following notes:
Note: White respondents only. Source: Conducted by Louis Harris & Associates during October 1966, and based on personal interviews with a national adult sample of 1,250. Sample size is approximate. As reported in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Data provided by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. Image is labeled "The Washington Post".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4vhxkgaipd5kkbv72tgkuy6o/bafkreicynardqumuanpag2rbdibhpmityycwwejcbyasgrhtetd3a4ywdi)
![Excerpt of article in Politico: "Racicot said she had an on-and-off relationship with Platner, who is now the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, for more than two years before he entered her rural Maine home uninvited one night in late 2021, deeply intoxicated, and forced himself on her [highlighted] while she repeatedly told him to stop. [End highlight] She said she cut off contract with him [highlighted] after telling him the encounter was not consensual. [End highlight] "I remember him [highlighted] grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me," [end highlight] she said. "I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, 'this is no longer my choice.'"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4vhxkgaipd5kkbv72tgkuy6o/bafkreihrqvslbzd6lv5xlw2nefxihvsqbr3wpdfcesjei2mg2r7ezgtywi)
![Bluesky post by user davecdnb.bsky.social which reads "All the vitriol on here is being directed toward the working class cops and court workers who came to their jobs and the most unbelievable thing occurred and many of them appeared to help in this emergency [red light siren emoji] and yet all the absolute losers on this website just can't help themselves." Post was made at 1:57pm on May 18, 2026.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4vhxkgaipd5kkbv72tgkuy6o/bafkreibyysuaf4os3atzolcc5gl55c44fxunmdfnpc5fj65skiuhcrfavu)
!["He [Jack, the trucker] reviewed what he knew about the Haitians in Springfield, which had mostly come from his mother, via a friend of hers who lived there, and had little good to say; Jack had seen a video she'd circulated purporting to show Haitians eating cats and dogs. Diana had called her up after everything happened, and her friend had sworn that Pierre had waited on her at Texas Roadhouse the weekend before. The friend said she recognized him from the photos. She told Diana that she and her husband had ordered two salads, and when the waiter she assumed was Pierre brought only one salad, she told him that they'd ordered two; she said that he had smiled and said something in a language she did not understand. Diana still wondered about what he'd said. She told Jack that she was worried about him, that the Haitians in Springfield were angry. That everybody in the country seemed to be angry, including her.
'My son could have died,' she said now. 'A whole bunch of lives could have been taken. And that's another thing--'
'No,' Renee [Jack's wife] said, attempting to preempt what she knew was coming."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4vhxkgaipd5kkbv72tgkuy6o/bafkreidf7ot3f5n26bmsbmotgd53lpdohylgcqd2rbpu3arzsrqsr2bo4m)
![Excerpt from Politico article: Racicot said [highlighted] she tried to separate herself from Platner [end highlight] by telling him she couldn't be in that room anymore, after which [highlighted] he followed her to her bedroom and had sex with her against her will. She said he also ejaculated inside of her despite her telling him not to, [end highlight] as she was not using birth control at the time.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4vhxkgaipd5kkbv72tgkuy6o/bafkreidlrnkml5qzf2k25jiqr7vhcov6ysyfefbmea5tmemi7vfo3zuhsi)
![Except from Politico article: Platner came up the stairs, Racicot said, to where she was on a couch. He got on top of her and kept grabbing her, she said, [highlighted] while she repeatedly told him to stop and that she wasn't interested. [End highlight] Racicot said she smelled alcohol on his breath and believed he was "almost blackout drunk"because [highlighted] Platner ignored her protests [end highlight] and continued to grab her after knocking over an antique sewing kit, spilling small needles everywhere. [Highlighted] "I had been telling him these words, like: 'No, don't,'" she recalled. [End highlight] "And, [highlighted] the look on his face [end highlight] and realizing what was happening, i just realized I am in a situation where there's no consent here," she said.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4vhxkgaipd5kkbv72tgkuy6o/bafkreifunwrlvi74sbnx4slbqwvbp3owbegpkw7nuowrfj2uafpg75rera)
