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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I never understand people who post "new profile pic! 🖼️" I can see the new one dingus, what was the OLD one??

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My health information is only worth $4 tops I'd feel selfish if I accepted this ☹️

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is wrong. Negative reinforcement is the response-contingent removal of an aversive stimulus followed by an increase in that response.

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is pathetic you should be ashamed of yourself

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Learn to crop your racist memes

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 18/09/2026

“Social democracy for me exploitation for thee” In case anyone wants to understand how evil social democracy and democratic socialism is, this content creator does a wonderful job of explaining it. socdems and demsocs like sanders, aoc, mamdani, etc., are just liberals cosplaying as Socialists.

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White Castle Doctrine @uruzrune.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We can excuse gestapo deporting our neighbors, unsafe food, genocide, destabilizing the world economy, and trans hate, but we draw the line at demolishing a building none of us have set foot in

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Does the courage of August Landmesser echo through time because of his particular refusal to submit to Adolf Hitler, or because he represents a refusal to allow a commitment to a moral universal be betrayed and destituted by a braying mob?

August Landmesser refusing to give the Nazi salute

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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Not everyone can make a donation. But almost everyone can share a story they believe deserves to be read. That’s the idea behind our Inside Story referral campaign. Subscribe. Invite a friend. Share a story.

A quote from a reader as a part of PJP's reader referral campaign reads: “The inhumanity of prisons survives in darkness. The Prison Journalism Project lets light in and out.” – Thom #PJPCommunity

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Seriously what has been going on? I'm not getting notifications from texts, GroupMe, or signal. I've checked all my in app and phone settings 😵‍💫

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I became an anarchist after listening to a free audiobook of The Conquest of Bread. I'm proud to contribute my voice and stumbling French pronunciations back to @audible-anarchist.bsky.social youtu.be/eA96SeuyHec?... this essay is an interesting early analysis of the financiers of the global MIC

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Wars and Capitalism by Peter Kropotkin

YouTube video by AudibleAnarchist

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Actblue will give refunds for donations. Food for thought

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Another journal review request for a paper I am perfectly suited to review, thanks to my publications. Hoisted by my own petard 😫

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 08/09/2026

It's so unfortunate how deep the lack of class consciousness goes in the American working class. How THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND that this is capitalism working exactly as intended, or that they exist under the BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP of the capitalist ruling class, and they can't vote their way out of this.

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

From the perspective of the bourgeoisie, communists are worse than Nazis

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A grad school classmate of mine had been an offensive lineman and said he'd be seeing double at the end of every long drive. They're getting concussed continuously.

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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

mass shooter administration

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

At the airport yesterday James Blunt's "you're beautiful" turned "fucking high" into a weird vocal bleat, even worse than the edit I've heard with "flying high"

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 30/08/2026

Remembering Fred Hampton born Aug. 30, 1948, assassinated Dec. 4, 1969 by Chicago police and the FBI

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

any statement like ‘Gen z have no literacy/cannot write/spell/communicate’ that is not also coupled with ‘their means of learning has been eradicated by tech fascism and government removal of funding’ is not worth listening to or boosting. the kids are living under the regime we allowed

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Do y'all ever wish you were journalists?

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

What ought to have been the most stressful assignment of my career was the easiest and by far completed the earliest before the deadline

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I completed my tenure dossier quite easily with a basic public posting chart in my dining room

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Grandma, where were you during the Holocaust of Gaza?

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out." B. F. Skinner

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

From Walden Two! Extremely inspiring fictional novel about an anarchist community organized around an understanding of how behavior works and experimentation to maximize quality of life. Everyone should read it ❤️

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Me finishing the about 72 containment symbols: "ok that's done" Asshole coworker: "uh ok let me just put 7 chains around it too"

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"My Essentials™" is pretty funny

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

How did you even find this? Do you just search Bernie Sanders? 🤨

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Dr. Antje Gamble @drantjegamble.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Also, I never will accept that wearing a mask was impeding anyone’s ’freedom’. I still mask, esp at work when I’m around hundreds of co-eds (who are always sick). I lecture for hours in a mask. I still live my damn life.

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I'm sure I've learned so much from bad TV over my lifetime 😅

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Thanks y'all. Another day, another small chip off my ignorance 🫡

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Will someone help me with "pied-a-terror"? Is it just a weird pun on pied piper? Or "predator"? I don't get it

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Do increases to monthly contributions count or is the goal for new/one time donations?

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I think one reason that prisons, and by extension the entire criminal justice system, are able to be as barbaric as they are is that prisons and prisoners are for the large part invisible. That's why I think PJP is so important for those inside as well as for humanity at large

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I thought of you when I saw this yesterday

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A quarter of a million followers and less than a hundred likes? Keep up the good work 🫡

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

That's so great! I've read society of the spectacle but there's always more to read 😅 thanks!

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This book has been stuck in my head in the best way. I'm reading Foucault's discipline and punish right now and finding interesting parallels. Is that book part of your learning history?

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I've had the same experience. People coming up to talk to me all weekend at that conference. Filled me with hope bsky.app/profile/thom...

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"consciousness" is magical thinking. It's a reification of patterns of learned behavior. There's no consciousness, it's just a word. youtu.be/Qbknecc1rWg?...

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11. Hank Schlinger - Brain, Mind, and Consciousness - Skeptics Society 2005

YouTube video by Barry Belmont

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

communism is not why your rent has skyrocketed. it's not why Blackrock is buying up millions of houses. communists are not the CEOs of health insurance companies nor are they building data centers. they weren't in the epstein files or on his island

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Why is this picture upside down? Pretty sure his head points the other way ⬇️

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Municipal level Democrats and Republicans routinely send the cops to beat and arrest protestors. Should that be a scandal or just the middle school insults?

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Idk man that really would hurt the purpose of college (investing and real estate speculation) /s

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