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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Sickened and infuriated by what happened in Venezuela. Realized a person can pay their state taxes before federal. Would this be of any benefit to states resisting the Trump regime in getting some sort of headstart in terms of resources or does it not work that way?

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

The ghouls at Amazon say it's a doorbuster, but how am I supposed to get trampled for a consumer product when I'm ordering online? Man- advertisers are some souless folk sometimes. #falseadvertising

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Sometimes this beautiful soul is the only thing keeping me going. When I'm feeling lonely and haunted by dark thoughts they somehow seem to know to find me. Their warmth, love, and purrs let me know that someone loves me. Furry people save lives.

A green-eyed tortoiseshell kitty with an outstretched paw looks toward the camera with a slight smile on their mouth. Behind them is a red couch and they're lying on the photographer's chest covered in a black and red hoodie.

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Proud of my city for not playing the regime's game. This video is a good explanation for why the inflatables are such an effective protest tactic.

youtu.be

The Psychology of the Portland Green Frog

YouTube video by Dr. Geoff Grammer

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

MAGA aims to make slavery legal in the USA. In under 30 min this small farmer, crop scientist, & ex-farm worker lays it (& more) out. I worked with a lot of immigrants in my Whole Food years. They ALL had it hard under the best of circumstances & for so, so many more it's truly hellish. Please watch

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

My coworker is the best. Makes work harder, but so much more pleasant.😻

a beautiful tortoiseshell kitty rests her head on my hand with green love eyes as I type on my laptop

a beautiful tortoiseshell kitty rests her head on my hand with green love eyes as I type on my laptop and has now reached her arm over mine in an embrace

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Right?... Seen on N Skidmore Street in Portland Oregon

A metal railing on a fence at the side of a bridge with green writing written vertically top to bottom reading : "Never Again... Right?"

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

It feels like a long time since our mainstream monoculture wasn't laser focused on gawking at the fascistic dumpster fire that we're becoming. It's hard not to of course & these things need to be witnessed & discussed, but damn it's exhausting. Anyway- here's my kitty Kaylee & a degutted toy alien.

a classic style green alien is nailed to a foam pole upside down beneath a blue sign meeting pothole hotline 503-823-bump city of Portland. the alien is upside down and it's chest cavity is open with a hole where the guts would be. behind you can see a deciduous tree directly behind with a blue sky above. to the rate is a slate gray vinyl sided house with white trim into the left is the road.

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

As a US citizen I recently learned the breathtakingly stupid way these goddamn tariffs were calculated. Fun fact it was from the Canadian Broadcasting Company & this infographic from the BBC. This is what happens when the oligarchs control the US media. Solid explainer video below.

A formula explaining how Trump's tariff rates were determined by dividing the US trade deficit with a particular country by the total imports from that country and then dividing that number by 2. Source US Treasury reported by the BBC

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I've been too exhausted for social media lately, but this gave me a glimmer of hope and I wanted to share it. There is power in speaking from your heart and giving witness to what you know to be true. I hope to grow to have the conviction, grit, and courage that Rep Zephyr shows here.

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Rep Zephyr’s speech flips 13 Republicans, trans bills die in Montana

YouTube video by Erin In The Morning

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

As a millennial having witnessed the transition to an algorithmically determined internet I think the generations after mine haven't exercised the muscle of intellectual self-determination which can make it seem like a chore. I recently watched a great video about this by @techconnectify.bsky.social

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Algorithms are breaking how we think

YouTube video by Technology Connections

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Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @brianamillslmft.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

When people say, “Only disabled people will die from this,” know that could also mean YOU. You can become part of the disability community at any time and will inevitably become disabled unless you die early. Disability is a part of life. Be careful when you exclude us because it could be you next.

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I'm legitimately tearing up. This gives me more hope than anything that's happened since the Trump regime began. I do think his actions with the military (firing generals, cutting food aid for service members, etc.) and the general disrespect he's shown them may have been a fatal mistake on his part

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/02/2025

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

An upside-down American flag hangs from El Capitan near Yosemite National Park’s Horsetail Fall on Saturday to protest the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration.
Tracy Barbutes/Special to the Chronicle

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

"As the Trump State Department official Darren Beattie wrote, 'Competent white men must be put in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.'" 🧵 Hypocrisy below

theatlantic.com

The Great Resegregation

The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Red Hats, White Hoods, Blood Tribe, Nazis- the White-Supremacists have many names but we must treat them all the same and drive them out wherever we find them. Mark my words, the Trump regime will make these groups his Brownshirts and we need to mobilize now in whatever way we can to resist them.

theguardian.com

US white supremacist groups emboldened with ‘ethnic and racial hatred’ as Trump stokes immigration fears

President’s anti-immigrant actions fuel a heartland battle between middle-ground Republicans and extremists

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

We’re still in a global pandemic. The threat of Covid has not passed. We’re seeing an increase in bird flu, measles, TB & more. Public health has been dying a slow & painful death for years. We are on our own. The good news? Masks work for more than just Covid! My complete guide to respirators 👇🏼

disabledginger.com

We’re Witnessing the Fall of Public Health… and Your Best Tool is a Mask

Measles in Texas, bird flu in Louisiana, tuberculosis in Kansas and Covid everywhere. Public health has been dying a slow death for years, we can’t count on it anymore. What can we count on? A mask!

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I'm not a lawyer but when Kash Patel said "No one that did not break the law will be investigated," under oath isn't he saying that he's prejudging them as guilty? Does anyone else find that problematic or am I just worrying over nothing?

law.com

'No Retributive Actions,' Kash Patel Pledges if Confirmed to FBI

In response to questions about whether he intended to target specific individuals, such as former FBI director Christopher Wray, for investigation, Patel said he had no intention of going backward.

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Rude. My coworker did not recognize the validity of my improvised trash can and claimed it for her own. She's lucky she's the sweetest cutest kitty in the world.

an adorable tortoiseshell Kitty sits in a knocked over cardboard box with a tissue near her bum looking at the camera with her big green eyes

an adorable tortoiseshell Kitty butt is seen in a knocked over cardboard box with a tissue near her bottom

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

"On a 2018 visit to the Balkans, Marocco secretly met with [...] ethnonationalist Bosnian Serb separatist leaders." "His official position is director of foreign assistance at the State Department, and the powers of the deputy administrator of USAID have been delegated to him as well."

propublica.org

Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy

Now one of the most powerful people in the U.S. government, Peter Marocco’s turbulent tenure during the first Trump administration sheds light on his current efforts to dismantle the American foreign ...

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Happy Not My President's Day & Sic Semper Tyrannis! Here's hoping Virginia lives up to its state motto. Shocked I had to make my own janky version of this, but if anyone can find/make a better version I'd love to see it.

an image of the state flag of Virginia which features a circle surrounded by red flowers on a blue background with a blue toga-wearing woman holding a spear in one hand and a sword in the other. she notably has one breast out and is standing on top of a purple short toe good man with a notable angry orange man's head superimposed. the text above reads Virginia and the text below reads sic semper tyrannis

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Retired-Librarian @retired-librarian.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

#BannedBookSkyClub discussion of #TheFireNextTime by James Baldwin. Describe how reading James Baldwin's letter to his nephew, "My Dungeon Shook" made you feel. Why?

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Billionaires' fixation with AI recalls The City of Lost Children where an old man, unable to dream, extracts those of children he's kidnapped. The 1%, torn from their humanity must steal the work of artists to create cheap imitations with machines that destroy the planet while cheapening our culture

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The City of Lost Children (1995) ⭐ 7.5 | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

1h 52m | R

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

this beautiful story was to me a moving vignette illustrating the universality of grieving the dead amongst sentient creatures. I highly recommend giving it a read.

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Retired-Librarian @retired-librarian.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

#BannedBookSkyClub Reminder that the March 2025 book is #ParableOfTheSower by Octavia Butler. Discussion start date forthcoming. Meanwhile in February, we're discussing #TheFireNextTime by James Baldwin. April 2025: Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, et al. Get link to feed in replies. Join us!

Photo of the book Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler on a blue flower patterned rug.

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

There's some good discussion going on about an important and timely book if any of you all are interested.

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

"Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage. Perhaps it is time to stand apart from these passions to see how they work, but also to find passions of our own: [...]" I recommend reading this article & found it very enlightening

theguardian.com

Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler

Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage

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Larry Mitchell @drlarrymitchell.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Only 13 years ago this was the exact plot to Skyfall.

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This is wild... "The Doge of Venice acted as both the head of state and head of the Venetian oligarchy. Doges were elected for life through a complex voting process" Of course the main difference being that this was an elected official and not the king of the trolls.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Between surging levels of influenza and Covid-19 of RSV and Norovirus there are some who say that we are in the midst of a “quad-demic,” yes, there are some who say that, but not the health agencies, for they have been ordered to stop saying anything at all.

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God Is A Tulpa @kristyclueless.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This is what it's like to be American

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

We’re here for you, more than ever. Please help spread our page far and wide many are desperately seeking reliable updates on public health, especially regarding bird flu, COVID-19, and tuberculosis. No one can silence us when it comes to sharing crucial health news. Together, we stay strong!

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Dyke Spiegel @cowgirlshebop.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Sucks that people care more about tariffs than the lives of humans. Really fun waking up panicking because I don’t know if I’m going to end up in a camp for being trans or if they’re going to come for my friends or my wife in the middle of the night.

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

thepinknews.com

Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher

Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.

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Dr Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Don't listen to me, listen to the extremely talented A.D Sui talking about my sapphic sun-vampire eco-horror novella! www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

"Also go read Sunbathers by Lindz McLeod cause it is such a bloody good time, you're going to devour this book in an evening. It's one of the goriest and hottest things I've read this year."

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Is it wrong to keep referring patients to a specific therapist because they look like the love child of John Flansburgh and John Linnell of They Might Be Giants fame? Because, if so, I don't want to be right.

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This makes me think of UPMC Pittsburgh and their noticable silence about the horrid air/ water pollution issues. It sure helps their bottom line to have a lot of sick people and an unusually high cancer rate in the city. That Shell cracker plant must have been great news to their board and investors

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Found this on Reddit and really appreciated the message. I know that I often subconsciously feel that being aware of an issue is doing something about it as they can often feel the same. This is a friendly reminder that change requires action.

reddit.com

From the WitchesVsPatriarchy community on Reddit: Important reflection for these times 🖤🤎✊

Explore this post and more from the WitchesVsPatriarchy community

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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Good morning Bluesky!

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The AI at my work feels like Ariel giving her voice to Ursula It puts our words & tone in notes, offers scripts to follow, and judges the quality of our interactions As a mental health EAP folks come in crisis and it's a gift to help them but more & more it feels like we're being fed into a machine🧵

source: https://www.deviantart.com/weaponxix/art/Ariel-s-song-570019142

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The lowest hanging Jewish fruit, but I'm glad the community is showing up on this. I hope the community actually hides people at risk-- reviving the sanctuary networks we had built last time around. I hope the community stands in solidarity with trans people and everyone else targeted today.

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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 28/01/2025

If you're struggling financially due to government fuckery or for any reason really and you need infant formula talk to your pediatrician we can hook you up and don't like to ask questions.

An image of me pointing to a closet full of Enfamil cans of various types and colors.

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

💯 And this includes mask bans that prevent medically vulnerable folks as well as those who care for them (like myself) from attending. Every time I go out I'm technically breaking the law, but it's definitely going to be enforced at protests.

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Remember: the USA used to be world class in responding to infectious disease- pig flu, bird flu, and other outbreaks that decimated other countries were largely kept in check until the first Trump administration. This disaster is because of policy decisions to defend public health.

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We can't mince words about people who have positions of authority in our government. There is far too much at stake.

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Dead Ludd @unzooligical.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

As Leftists and Liberals, it's vital that we keep our humanity and stick to our principals in this fascist age. This is going to rough for alus all- please be kind to each other.

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