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Anthony

@pyrpawed.blacksky.app

271 followers 338 following 328 posts

Black, Queer, Quaker with too many dogs. Passions: disability rights & justice, enviro (esp. food & water) law & policy, & old school R&B (Chaka Khan all day, every day). He/Him/His.

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Anthony @pyrpawed.blacksky.app · 26/08/2025

““He was not only an abolitionist, he was a feminist. He was a protector of the environment. He said, beware rich men who poison the earth for gain.

This sounds like something that was said yesterday, not 300 years ago. He was a vegetarian and very nearly a vegan, 200 years before that word was invented. So, I've always said that Benjamin Lay, in his time, was the most radical person on the planet.

You take all these things together, and I think it might still be true if you were around today, because we still really haven't caught up to him.

He and Sarah eventually moved to Pennsylvania, settling near Philadelphia in Abington. They wanted to live a life that caused no harm, so they made their own clothes and lived in a cave to minimize their footprint. But Benjamin couldn't stay silent.”

From Thee Quaker Podcast: Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Abolitionist That History Forgot, Aug 26, 2025
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thee-quaker-podcast/id1684973123?i=1000723570723&r=540

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Anthony @pyrpawed.blacksky.app · 25/07/2025

We all know you’re covering “Somebody Else’s Guy”

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Anthony @pyrpawed.blacksky.app · 16/07/2025

Picture of a Black person with a “What the hell?” type of face reaction and a caption over them that states, “The black community:”

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Anthony @pyrpawed.blacksky.app · 05/06/2025

My Pick: Fluke. (1995) He talks to the audience, not exactly to his family in the film, but I guess that still counts.

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Anthony @pyrpawed.blacksky.app · 05/06/2025

Underlining a "catastrophic humanitarian situation" in the Palestinian territory, the resolution, had it passed, would have demanded the lifting of all restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza.

"This will remain not only a moral stain on the conscience of this council, but a fateful moment of political application that will reverberate for generations," said Pakistan's ambassador to the UN, Asim Ahmad.

China's ambassador to the UN Fu Cong said "today's vote result once again exposes that the root cause of the council's inability to quell the conflict in Gaza is the repeated obstruction by the US".

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Anthony @pyrpawed.blacksky.app · 28/05/2025

When an org that claims to prioritize inclusivity and social justice uses a hiring platform rooted in ableism and racism, bad Quaker thoughts pop into my head:

“RESURRECT JOHN BROWN AND GIVE HIM POWER ARMOR” meme

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Anthony @pyrpawed.blacksky.app · 26/05/2025

It’s Memorial Day today but I’m still thinking about yesterday’s dinner plate.

Sunday dinner with the family - steak (rare), deviled eggs (my favorite…and a delicacy these days, given the cost of eggs), corn on the Cobb, slaw, and watermelon

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Anthony @pyrpawed.blacksky.app · 22/05/2025

Also, the highlight of my weekend last weekend was taking them to a Great Pyrenees meetup where they got to hang out with some other Pyrs.

Two Great Pyrenees saying hello to one another

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Anthony @pyrpawed.blacksky.app · 22/05/2025

It’s my “Gotcha Day” for my two youngest children, these loud ass Great Pyrenees (who recently turned 3 years old).

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Anthony @pyrpawed.blacksky.app · 22/05/2025

Searched for an org I like to follow on Bluesky, but it’s not on Bluesky, only X….

Rose Vega, from 90 Day Fiancé, making a disgusted face

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Anthony @pyrpawed.blacksky.app · 16/05/2025

Timeline cleanse: clip from my friend’s opera recital last night

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Anthony @pyrpawed.blacksky.app · 09/05/2025

Okay, but my best friend’s out here asking the hard hitting question. What is Pope Bob’s Wawa order? We know he’s #gottahaveWawa if he went to Villanova. He’s definitely had a hoagie or two over the years.

Text:

“The new pope is from Chicago and he went to Villanova

We need to know his Wawa order”

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Anthony @pyrpawed.blacksky.app · 08/05/2025

Hanging out at her favorite spot in the house

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Anthony @pyrpawed.blacksky.app · 16/03/2025

“When you’re on that bike in your shorts, panting away next to a Republican, a lot of the inhibitions come off.”

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Anthony @pyrpawed.blacksky.app · 14/03/2025

It’s so hard to see the goodness and the humanity in everyone, but the world would be a better place if we made that attempt.

“And so, yeah, I mean, it's small things, but, you know, and then I think the biggest thing is try to see the full humanity in every person you encounter in the day. It's both my professional goal, but also my parenting and personal goal is that if I can see the full humanity in whoever is sitting across from me, and sometimes that is hard. I'm a lawyer.

I sit across from a lot of other lawyers. But if I can do that, then I am really pushing back on the thing traffickers need most, which is for me not to see every person's full humanity.” -Bridgette A. Carr

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Anthony @pyrpawed.blacksky.app · 10/03/2025

And may it keep on dropping, Inshallah

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Anthony @pyrpawed.blacksky.app · 05/03/2025

One thing the City of Los Angeles is always gonna do is warn residents about rain.

LA City Alert-Rain expected in LA. Get ready, especially in burn areas.

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Anthony @pyrpawed.blacksky.app · 03/03/2025

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Anthony @pyrpawed.blacksky.app · 18/02/2025

Felt like having Porto’s this morning

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Anthony @pyrpawed.blacksky.app · 18/02/2025

Timeline Cleanse

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Anthony @pyrpawed.blacksky.app · 17/02/2025

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Anthony @pyrpawed.blacksky.app · 17/02/2025

L.A. Reid discussing his top five artists of all time. Talent recognizing talent:

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Anthony @pyrpawed.blacksky.app · 02/02/2025

Yesterday was Pearl (the black dog)‘s 9th birthday. She’s my Aquarius baby 🎉.

Close up of a Great Pyrenees dog (named Teddy Pendergrass) looking into the camera as a black (with tan markings on her nose and eyebrows) Chihuahua mix named Pearl licks his mouth.

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Anthony @pyrpawed.blacksky.app · 08/01/2025

View of DTLA this morning. Luckily, we haven’t had to evacuate; but the winds this morning are some of the worst I’ve ever seen on the Santa Monica Mountains. It’s just awful to look at and to breathe in, and a high risk for another fire popping up. We’re on high alert today.

View of downtown Los Angeles from afar, covered in smoke

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Anthony @pyrpawed.blacksky.app · 07/01/2025

She would greatly appreciate if I turned off the podcast episode that I’m loudly playing and if I also turned off the lights…because it’s not even 5am.