@salonofshame.bsky.social Door is open!! (That's one of my diaries for my 2nd ever reading tonight.)

1. "They tried to run us over" has been institutionalized as DHS's license to shoot people. They reflexively go to this lie when they draw their guns. 2. Even with a masked man is waving a gun in her face, this woman repeatedly tells them they are full of shit. Hero.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h ago

This is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.

My diaphragm is stuck & often means big stuck emotions. As I'm planning on reading tonight at @salonofshame.bsky.social from beginning + end points of my 20-year situationship, I thought I'd do some sleuthing in my calendar: I burned my primary divorce journal 4 years ago under a full moon!! 🔥🎯🌕

The billionaires will not save us...literally. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alaska-tour-boat-rescued-stranded-skiff-instead-mark-zuckerbergs-mega-rcna591689

Mark Zuckerberg’s mega-yacht didn’t respond to call for help from small boat in Alaska

When the captain of the boat that did respond announced Zuckerberg’s cruiser was closer and hadn’t answered the call, “t

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5. Dreaming of turning the nearby megacurch parking lot into my own personal roller disco. 6. Plotting the unrestricted takeover of timber bamboo to attract the elusive PNW panda bears. 7. Knowing the names of my neighborhood crows yet not those of my human neighbors.

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · last mo.

Symptoms of middle-age I'd not have anticipated in my 20s: 1. Finding it even harder to cope when confronted with the suffering of animals. 2. Thinking of 9pm as a totally reasonable bedtime. 3. Selling my heavy rock records to buy jazz. 4. Still wanting to climb trees & explore abandoned buildings.

"A culture is no better than its woods." - WH Auden

Dear cis people, Please, for the love of G-d, stop using the terms "biological male" and "biological female." They're scientifically meaningless. Sex is a bimodal cluster categorization. The brain is biological, no? There is no one factor that's universally determinative of sex and gender.

Reminder that we published an extensive interview with a former editor at The New York Times who laid out, in detail, how the paper's pushing of anti-trans bigotry was both very intentional and directed from the very top of the organization. The NYT plays a direct and major role in trans genocide:

'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry

In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...

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Ra'il I'Nasah Kiam co-founded YourSlipisShowing, which played a key role in anti-racist and antifascist organizing online. But his work, like that of so many Black trans organizers, was thoroughly erased — when the movement he helped found was even mentioned at all. This is his story:

Ra'il l'Nasah Kiam, YourSlipisShowing, and the Erasure of Black Trans Organizing

Long-time activist Ra’il I’Nasah Kiam co-founded the #YourSlipIsShowing movement. But he was erased in much of the media coverage. He reflects on his struggles, and how Black trans organizing gets bur...

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If you’re still defending America as a country in any capacity you’re defending mass genocide, racism, slavery, exploiting of the working class, etc. A country that was built & thrives off of all of the above concepts cannot be fixed. It will fall in the way we currently know it sooner than later.

Mira@thefreeradical.org · 3d ago

anyway never forget that america is an ontologically evil country whose entire structure is built on the suffering of millions of marginalized people, and is inherently unsustainable in the longterm

anyway, if you earnestly don't understand what i mean by this... i want to recommend you some reads on the history of the US that'll probably discuss things you did not know. will link them all in this thread. Vicky Osterweil's In Defense of Looting is a great start on policing & civil rights

In Defense of Looting

Vicky Osterweil In Defense of Looting A Riotous History of Uncivil Action August 2020

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As a caregiver for nine years, this is a truly grotesque layer of trauma adding unfathomable burdens atop medical challenges. ABLE accounts can help!

NPR@npr.org · 2d ago

Medicaid will have new work requirements next year. But some people with disabilities, who already work, say they'd like to work more, but risk losing their Medicaid coverage if they earn too much. n.pr/3UmXwR2

v1.130 is live! Want to follow someone for their posts but not their reposts? Now you can — turn on "Hide reposts in feeds" for any account you follow.

- Weird girl horror - Monster girl wrongs (support them) - family drama / coming-of-rage tale - modern-day setting in "Being Human"esque town - Modern Gothic tropes and themes - no romance, but there are terrible men #Horror #WeirdGirl #QueerHorror 🌈📚💙😱📚🩸 buy.bookfunnel.com/kwqd6x2s9w

You can't choose your family... but you can eat them

Completely absurd, violent and absolutely wonderful. Perfectly blending eldritch horror with family drama that's both tender and hilarious. The world said, "You shouldn't go around making people feel ...

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It is one year since apartheid Israel murdered the courageous Gaza journalist Anas al-Sharif, one of hundreds of Palestinian journalists it has killed, with total impunity. There must be accountability. #GazaGenocide Remembering Anas, Mohammed and Gaza’s other slain journalists aje.news/q25bpn

Remembering Anas, Mohammed and Gaza’s other slain journalists

Our colleagues in Gaza have taken the journalism profession to an unseen level. In doing so, they've paid a heavy price.

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Everyone is on their own timeline. It's ok if you haven't become a rumpled & weary library detective yet, or a gently creepy forest horror who lurks on the ragged edge of town. Your time will come.

Hank and Herbert #floppydiskart #floppydisks #kitties

As I ease into my late 60s, with its onslaught of new aches, pains, and infirmities, the last-but-one paragraph of Villager really hit home for me

I wouldn't call my updated Bluesky bio "fun" but it gets to the point much more directly than my previous ones.

I’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son; our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht - which was closer - and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this)

1000% this.

James Dyke@jamesgdyke.info · 5d ago

"You often hear: another world is possible. Well I am here telling you that another world is inevitable. We either decide to stop burning fossil fuels or the Earth system will stop us. We are well beyond incremental, so-called policy relevant pathways." www.technosphere.earth/climate-chan...

Only in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦄😂👍

seattle disks #floppydisks #seattle

this would fix me #floppydisks

*after a solid 30 mins of absolutely failing to find a song I heard once years ago on the radio & clearly can't describe satisfactorily enough to a search engine* Me: "I'm about to give up hope." @yelahneb.bsky.social : "It saves time." And, scene. 🤭

Amazing work, @thesalemnox.bsky.social.

Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling “Unsafe”.

Salem's city council voted unanimously to pursue a data center moratorium after residents - and a guillotine - pushed back on a $5.1 billion AI facility.

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Once they can do it to 'illegal' immigrants. Then they are going to do it to Disabled People. Then they are going to do it to Pensioners. Then they will do it to you. That's how Fascism rolls.

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they really do just disappear like that (i love minnesota)

Flock cameras across Minnesota are being vandalized in response to data privacy concerns

Authorities in the metro and across Minnesota say they’re seeing an uptick in damage to license-reading cameras, especially Flock cameras.

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✨queer commie terrorist✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · last wk.

the cameras are known to just disappear like that at times, ya know