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Clinton Bowen @torrho.com · 31/07/2026
🧵 Blacksky is looking to buy a server for $30k USD. We'd like the following specs or better: - 384 GB RAM - 80 TB NVMe; ZFS RAIDZ2 in 2 vdevs - 1 Gbps + 10 Gpbs burstable - at least 84 threads for the CPU(s) - Ideally somewhere in the eastern half of North America but open to North America and EU
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xylosomatic.blacksky.app @xylosomatic.blacksky.app · 26/06/2026
which... it does.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/05/2026
If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)
giveinmay.org
Support Alex's Emergency Relocation + Next Steps on Give In May
Alex is leaving the US after his work permit renewal was wrongfully denied by Trump's USCIS.
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thiiird person @thiiirdperson.com · 17/04/2026
i need help affording bills, groceries, and my kid's upcoming birthday. looking for $470 this weekend, one donation at a time. please chip in if you're able to. shares are also very helpful!
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xylosomatic.blacksky.app @xylosomatic.blacksky.app · 16/04/2026
I just did this, took me 2 minutes.
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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
As Isreal renews open war with Lebanon, @distributeaid.org has tourniquets, water filters, and wheelchairs already on the way to help civilians survive. We also prepositioned hundreds of shelter nursing kits to help mothers and infants fleeing the bombs. Donate to fund the next shipment 👇
omprakash.org
Send Aid to the Levant | Crowdfunding with Omprakash null
Donate to support social impact in Serbia with Distribute Aid.
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Justin Case @punchnazisitsokay.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Are you a warehouse owner who hates ICE and loves your community? Donate 20 pallet spaces and @distributeaid.org will fill em up before the next disaster strikes!
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xylosomatic.blacksky.app @xylosomatic.blacksky.app · 14/01/2026
These people are not serious
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Distribute Aid @distributeaid.org · 03/01/2026
🚨 Thread collecting actionable steps to help civilians in Venezuela, Venezuelan refugees fleeing to neighboring countries, and Venezuelan immigrants in the US. 🚨 ✅️ Please post ideas / links, especially to local frontline groups. ❌️ Please avoid non-actions, and be cautious regarding sanctions. 👇
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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 27/12/2025
Now that we're in the 2025 home stretch, our collective is shifting from retail hustle to reflection. This was a tough year, on lots of levels, but our public messaging has mostly focused on political concerns rather than the difficult financial position we've been in since Hurricane Helene. 1/
A photo of a hand with a pen writing on a notepad. The page reads "Firestorm's 2026 Survival Brainstorm" and includes the following items: "sell more books!", "fewer treats for Julius" (crossed out with a frowny face), "replace us with robots", and an unfinished line that reads "rob a ban". This image is satire—google jury nullification!
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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Wake up babes, the most wonderful thing has finally happened. annas-archive.org/blog/backing...
Backing up Spotify
annas-archive.li/blog, 2025-12-20, Discuss on Hacker News

We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB), grouped by popularity.

This release includes the largest publicly available music metadata database with 256 million tracks and 186 million unique ISRCs.

It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 15/12/2025
People will compensate you to know the truth and tell a lie
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Also from Sameer: “The Civil Defense in Gaza received 3,500 calls in the last hours and the Sameer Project received hundreds of calls and messages. Hundreds of camps flooded and dozens have been completely destroyed.” Please donate!!!!
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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 03/11/2025
Reposting with Alt Text. Location of free food pantries in Atlanta for those in need.
WHERE TO GET FREE FOOD IN ATL

The following distros offer free food to anyone who shows up. No strings attached, no requirements, no BS.
Last updated 12/16/24.
FOOD
FOR THE PEOPLE!
DOWNTOWN:
• Atlanta Justice Alliance, Saturdays 12pm @ Woodruff Park
• Sol Underground Free Store, 1st Fridays 7-10pm @ For Keeps Books; 2nd + 4th Fridays
7-10pm @ 48 MLK Jr Dr SW
SOUTH SIDE:
• FoodLife Weelaunee Distro, Wednesdays 4-6pm @ Gresham Rec Center
• FoodLife South ATL Distro, Fridays 6pm @ Jonesboro Rd SE + Hutchens Rd SE
• FoodLife Lakewood Distro, Saturdays 12-2pm @ Lakewood Ave SE + Rhodesia Ave SE
• South Bend Commons Distro, Tuesdays 5-7pm @ 1799 Lakewood Ter SE
• New Life Community Alliance, Tuesday-Saturday 10am-12pm @ 3592 Flat Shoals Rd
EAST SIDE:
• FoodLife Edgewood Distro, Sundays 1-2pm @ Mayson Ave + Hardee St
• Intown Food Pantry, Tuesdays + Saturdays 10am-12pm @ 1026 Ponce de Leon Ave NE
• Hillside Presbyterian Church, Tuesdays 12-3pm @ 1879 Columbia Dr, Decatur
• United Methodist Church, Thursdays 11am-1pm @ 2067 Columbia Dr, Decatur
WEST SIDE:
• Another Chance Atlanta, Fridays 11am-4pm @ 176 Troy St NW
• Community Church, Wednesdays 10am-1pm @ 850 Cascade Ave SW
• Salem Bible Church, Tuesdays and 2nd + 4th Thursdays 9am-1pm @ 2267 Baker Rd BUCKHEAD:
• Water Drop ATL (they have food too!) Sunday mornings near Lindbergh Center; DM
@c.u.n.t.s.usa on IG for time and location
OUTSIDE THE PERIMETER:
• Food4Life Clarkston Distro, Tuesdays 4pm @ Milam Park, Clarkston
• Malachi's Storehouse, Wednesdays 9am-12pm @ 4755 N Peachtree Rd, Dunwoody
• Rock Church of Atlanta, Tuesdays 11am, Wednesdays 9am-3pm, Thursdays 11am, and Fridays 2pm @ 4815 Courtney Dr, Forest Park
• Salem Bible Church, Tuesdays and 2nd + 4th Thursdays 9am-1pm @ 5460 Hillandale Dr, Stonecrest / Lithonia
MAP ON REVERSE SIDE!
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Do it. Search your name. Take their money. It’s yours anyway.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 04/09/2025
Everyone keeps talking about how this or that country or international body has been completely inert, inactive, with respects to Gaza – myself included – but it isn't entirely accurate. They've been doing *something*: Watching, observing, and taking scrupulous notes on the question of the limit.
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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
activists aboard the Madleen believe their signal was intercepted by Israel and that the IOF is preparing to commit a war crime, but they are not stopping, they're determine to bring food to gaza. none of us have ever been this brave. keep the more eyes on the madleen the better. keep watching.
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Jack Turban MD @turban.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The NYT is doing a podcast series on the history of pediatric gender medicine that’s sure to be a mess. Alternatively, you could read my meticulously cited book: allstora.com/products/fre...
allstora.com
Free to Be: Understanding Kids & Gender Identity
An authoritative guide to understanding and navigating gender identity from an acclaimed expert on the mental health of transgender and gender diverse youth. Kids today are more gender fluent and expa...
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I am so grateful for everyone’s help so far, and am now over halfway to my goal here! I’ve got to get a majority of these bills paid off this month. Please consider helping me out with funds if you can. Boosts are really appreciated as well 🙏💙 ko-fi.com/butchanarchy...
butchanarchy ko-fi fundraiser that reads: In the late summer of 2023 | got thrown around by a pair of cops and they injured my left shoulder. That shoulder never got proper medical care and dislocated when I was exercising late in 2024, and in January of this year I got surgery to fix the bad tear in my shoulder labrum. This along with long neglected dental care has put me back in steep medical debt. The amount here is what I need to come up with to pay for the surgery, 6 weeks of physical therapy, and necessary dental work.
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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
i am adding another post linking directly to the fundraiser in case bluesky deletes nema's account again. please help these children eat!! bit.ly/HelpRazan
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Save Razan and Mohammad family
My name is Sasha M , and I am raising money for my beautiful friend Nima. Please read her words below:
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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
b__sting for Nema and her children--can we get them at least $200? these kids need to eat right away
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/05/2025
Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
politico.com
'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The ICE kidnappings are terrifying and show why abolition is the only path. Kidnapping cops call themselves "special police units," but they're the jump out boys in most cities. Freddie Gray was kidnapped by them and the SCORPION unit killed Tyree Nichols. theconversation.com/tyre-nichols...
theconversation.com
Tyre Nichols’ death underscores the troubled history of specialized police units
The officers charged in the murder of a Black man in Memphis, Tenn., were part of the elite SCORPION squad. Such units have an ugly history.
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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
the thing teenage boys need to hear more than anything else is that it is actually okay if they don't grow up to be men at all. they don't have to feel invested in the political interests of men as a class, bc they dont have to BE men. it's okay if they grow up to be women, or something else :)
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
there are 400 million guns in this country Every adult and child above adolescence in this country should have stop the bleed training
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The last functional hospital in Gaza city has been bombed and patients are strewn on the streets.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/04/2025
Court ruling saying Mahmoud Khalil can be deported condemned as ‘unjust and alarming’ – live
theguardian.com
Court ruling saying Mahmoud Khalil can be deported condemned as ‘unjust and alarming’ – live
Columbia University graduate’s support team says decision puts at risk free speech after court says state department memo on beliefs was enough evidence for removal
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10/04/2025
Who could’ve ever foresaw except all the people who did and got arrested for doing so
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
211 dead journalists in Gaza These are my colleagues, my comrades in storytelling, the very best of our profession being burned alive in front of the whole fucking world My heart can’t fucking take it
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Alaaa @engalaaaaaa.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
@xylosomatic.bsky.social If we are gone, take care of yourself, and keep us in your heart. Stay strong, defend your freedom, and never lose hope. We wished for peace but left hungry and heartbroken. Famine is hitting my children hard. Please repost, quote, or donate. bsky.app/profile/assa...
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Muntjac: Anarchism Decolonised @muntjacmag.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
muntjacmag.noblogs.org/post/2025/03...
https://muntjacmag.noblogs.org/post/2025/03/28/blackbloczone-international-fundraising-campaign-in-solidarity-with-our-indonesian-anarchist-combatants/
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Signal @signal.org · 25/03/2025
Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/
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SASSI South @sassisouth.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Greensboro, come through for a SASSI Session. We'll discuss the surveillance tech and systems in Greensboro and how we challenge their use. Email for the location: sassisouth@proton.me
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 18/03/2025
DHS plans to collect social media data from immigrants (including many already in the U.S.) who file for citizenship, green cards, asylum, and other benefits – "an even greater threat to the First Amendment,” EFF’s Saira Hussain told @bloomberg.com.
news.bloomberglaw.com
Social Media Activity Targeted in Trump Immigration Crackdown
Trump administration plans to expand the collection of immigrants’ social media data will have a chilling effect on speech in the US, privacy advocates warn.
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