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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We should be using taxpayer dollars to feed America’s children, keep rural hospitals open, lower the cost of health care – not bombing Palestinians.

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Sam Pranger @samwise420.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I love a good clarinet jam, I still have mine but I need to re-learn to read music 😂

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

🚨BREAKING: Our video journalist Jon Farina falls down as he is nearly shot by flash bang grenade as NJ state police continue firing a BLITZ of flash bang grenades and tear gas at unarmed anti-ICE protesters outside Delaney Hall ICE Prison. WE'RE LIVE ⬇️

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/05/2026

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

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Sam Pranger @samwise420.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

@smith.senate.gov @klobuchar.senate.gov Why are you voting to give weapons to a genocidal state?!? We all know Bibi is behind this Iran bullshit, so why are you stoking the flames of this illegal war by allowing MORE weapons go there?!

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Sam Pranger @samwise420.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

If you see this, post a picture from whatever device you're using with no explanation.

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Sam Pranger @samwise420.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Lick boots, win fabulous prizes! 🤣

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Sam Pranger @samwise420.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Nice to know where I'm not welcome...

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Sam Pranger @samwise420.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

What the fuck @klobuchar.senate.gov ? Grow a spine, especially if you want to leas the state after this. Enabling fascism is not a bold leadership strategy.

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

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Sam Pranger @samwise420.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Big fucking surprise there. 🙄 Can't argue with the numbers though, yikes!

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Today I was Kidnapped By ICE - Dawokefarmer

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Sam Pranger @samwise420.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

What the actual FUCK?!? 😡🤬

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Webanalyst @webanalyst.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

The Epstein coverup will go down as one of the greatest scandals and miscarriages of justice in U.S. history. Everyone involved with Epstein’s victims or with the coverup needs to be prosecuted and go down in shame. It does not matter if they are GOP or Dems! Repost if you agree. #BlueCrew

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Sam Pranger @samwise420.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Weren't they JUST talking about how they're gonna crack down on all that christian oppression? This seems like the opposite of that... 🤔

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

No reason at all to do this besides hate

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

“The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!" 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical... There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness." ― Ursula K. Le Guin

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.

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Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

This thread. TL;DR - NO!

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Sam Pranger @samwise420.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

This has been the plan the whole time 🤬

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Claire M @camsterclaire.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

How can I be happy? Narrated by Stephen Fry, #Thatshumanism explores where meaning in life comes from – not a cosmic plan, but what we create through relationships, creativity, and the world around us. Watch the video: humanists.uk/thatshumanism/

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That's humanism!

We've teamed up with our patron Stephen Fry, to explore humanist ideas about some of life’s big questions in four animated shorts.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 16/08/2025

The "oh you won't compromise and abandon [marginalized group]? enjoy the nazi takeover!" argument rings pretty fucking false when you consider that the horrors of a nazi takeover begin with the abandonment of marginalized groups.

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Sam Pranger @samwise420.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Wait, I thought "death panels" were bad? Then, the "pro-life" crowd told grandparents to sacrifice themselves for the good of the economy during Covid, and now we're murdering people to harvest their organs? What in the fascist fuck is this nonsense?!?

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Sam Pranger @samwise420.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

@seriouslydiaonly.bsky.social maybe something to dig into on SIO...or any of the pods really 🤣

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die
July 21, 2025

AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024.

Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years.

We refuse to watch them die.

One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.”

Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness.

Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.”

Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%.

AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)

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Sam Pranger @samwise420.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Jesus fuck! Tell me again how it's not genocide?!

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Sam Pranger @samwise420.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Nice, they're murdering people in the streets now. But they're totally not the gestapo. What the actual fuck is happening right now?!? 😡

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Jewish orgs Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Association are giving out interest-free loans to LGBTQ+ folks who need to re-locate but can’t afford it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE JEWISH. “The idea that people were having to pick up and flee their homes was something that resonated Jewishly.”

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Persecuted for being LGBTQ+ in Trump country, they now have a chance to start over someplace new

Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Society are fighting persecution by offering loans to those who need to flee,

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be.

The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization.

In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape.

You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

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