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Kobra

@kobrakahn.bsky.social

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At The Root Collective @at-the-root.bsky.social · last wk.

Sign the petition to demand justice for Hickory Ground and the return of the ancestors from plastic bins at Auburn University. Every signature strengthens the demand to protect sacred sites and honor ancestors. www.justiceforhickoryground.com/petition

Hickory Ground, or Oce Vpofv, is a historic Muscogee (Creek) Nation tribal capital and state-registered archeological site on the National Register of Historic Places located in Wetumpka, Alabama. This culturally and religiously significant site includes a ceremonial ground, council house, plaza, and ancestral burial grounds containing funerary objects.

Justice for Hickory Ground is essential to rectify the injustices committed against the Muscogee (Creek) people and their ancestral lands. The desecration of this site for commercial gain, withour the consent of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation or thr Hickory Ground tribal town, represents a profpund violation of their cultural and spiritual heritage.

Achieving justice for Hickory Ground requires holding those responsible accountable, restoring the site's sanctity, and returning all remains and artifacts to their rightful resting placed. This will reinforce the importance of respecting Indigenous rights and protecting sacred lands from future exploitation.

Interested in learning more about Justice for Hickory Ground? https://www.justiceforhickoryground.com/

Blue Willow Bookshop @bluewillowbooks.bsky.social · 2w ago

You're invited to the next meeting of our banned books club, I'm With the Banned. 🔥 We will discuss SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut. All are welcome to attend. We'd love to see you there! buff.ly/9s2THJe

A graphic promoting the next meeting of I'm With the Banned, Blue Willow Bookshop's new banned books club. On the right is the cover image of the book the group will be reading, SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut. The graphic reads: "I'm With the Banned. Next meeting: August 11th at 11:00am CT Blue Willow Bookshop All are welcome. Don't forget: Get 15% off the book club pick when you buy it at Blue Willow!"

Carlene Webb @mizcarlene.bsky.social · 3w ago

😔 www.commondreams.org/news/christo...

Calls Grow to Boycott 'The Odyssey,' Filmed in Moroccan-Occupied Western Sahara | Common Dreams

One critic noted that Sahrawis "are beaten, arbitrarily arrested, and have their equipment confiscated for trying to make their own films of life under occupation."

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ZEDtheRED @zedthered.bsky.social · 3w ago

This! I just dropped off 5 pans of food to a free fridge It was overstock from a local commercial kitchen.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 3w ago

Hey, do me a favor and do an internet search for "free fridge" and your town's name. And then go drop some stuff off when you have some food you're not gonna eat. Got some takeout with an extra wonton soup you're not gonna eat? Take it to the free fridge. Someone needs it. Seriously.

Kobra @kobrakahn.bsky.social · 4w ago

I'll be running the speed-friending! :D

At The Root Collective@at-the-root.bsky.social · 4w ago

Come see us at Trans Pride next Saturday, 11am-3pm, at Shenanigans Comedy Theatre! Featuring performances, community resources, a photo booth, speed-friending, and more.

Alabama's 5th annual Trans Pride
July 18, 2026
Shenanigans Comedy Theatre

Hosted by Rainbow Trouble

Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · last mo.

Zines are a way for marginalized voices to publish outside of traditional media gatekeepers, share tools for grassroots organizing & political education, & build community & solidarity outside of corporate platforms! Check out our zines, on a variety of topics, at bit.ly/ICzines!

leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · last mo.

Clarence Thomas says the 14th Amendment should be read narrowly because it was written for formerly enslaved people. By that logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets, not AR-15s. Funny how that kind of originalism only shows up when it's convenient.

Kobra @kobrakahn.bsky.social · last mo.

Listening to NPR talking about the possible overhaul of the 2-party political system in the US as both major parties find themselves on the brink of schism. Here's hoping 🤞🏼

Kobra @kobrakahn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

CallingUpJustice.com/accessible-virtual-pride-2026 OneFreeCommunity.com

Accessible Virtual Pride 2026 - Calling Up Justice!

Join us for our Fourth Annual Accessible Virtual Pride produced with and for our disabled community and our LGBTQIA2s+ community, with allies welcome.

callingupjustice.com

#MEAction Network@meactnet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Pride should be accessible! For many in our community a virtual option is needed for access. We are excited to share One Free Community and @callingupjustice.bsky.social are producing a free, volunteer run, virtual event for disabled queer folx who don't have access to their local pride events.

Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG WORLD 2026 @scherawyss.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here's the full article for those interested. Insanely bleak stuff, I don't think I'll ever be able to look at the Pokemon franchise the same way again dronexl.co/2026/06/09/p...

Pokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained The Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military Drones

Pokémon Go players' 30 billion scans trained navigation tech now bound for military drones, via Niantic Spatial's defense partnership with Vantor.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Have you made your voice heard for library funding yet? There's still time to act! Advocates like YOU can make a difference. Tell your Senators to #FundLibraries in next year's federal budget: action.ala.org/campaign/FY27SenateApprops/

Fund Libraries: Tell Congress to invest in libraries. #FundLibraries, ALA 150, American Library Association.

Trans Lifeline @translifeline.org · 2mo ago

Protect trans youth. Across the country, trans young people are facing attacks on their healthcare, privacy, and safety. But communities and courts are fighting back — and we need more leaders to act. Sign, share, speak up! Pride means protecting each other. 🏳️‍⚧️ https://bit.ly/protecttransyouthxTL

Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 2mo ago

Happy Pride month you buncha queers

Inside you are two bricks:
Throw me at a Fascist
Use me to build community

reed eliot 🤌 🤌@reedeliot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I truly believe that to survive this moment you must believe another world is possible, and also have a long enough memory or deep enough curiosity to know other worlds existed before this one. The way things were felt like the only way they could be until they weren't anymore.

olive consumer@machete.gay · 2mo ago

To be clear, I do not just mean the right. Nihilism haunts many progressives, leftists, and what we'll generously call apolitical centrists. If you cannot posit a world that should exist, you cannot create anything of value and at the core of that work is belief in that other, different world.

Hien Pham 🐻@hiencomics.com.au · 2mo ago

My Pledge Drive exclusive comic this year has funny Hien chibis, one full-page cooking segment, and even a big panel of the local park in golden hour lighting! Oh, and sentimental writing that made my editors tear up hehehe 😘 Let's keep OJST going for another year 🔥!!! Reposts hugely appreciated 🙏🏾

Oh Joy Sex Toy@ohjoysextoy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy 13th Birthday to Oh Joy Sex Toy! Join our Patreon Pledge Drive this month for BONUS COMICS and to keep the site going for one more year! www.patreon.com/OhJoySexToy

Erika draws with a bouncy, cartoony style and uses a color palette of warm yellows, oranges, and reddy-pinks.

"Ahh, summer again!" Exclaims Erika, a white cis middle-age woman in beach attire, which is appropriate since she and her crew are walking on a sandy beach.

Ahead of her walks Ziggy, a trans man in his 40s with a heavily tattooed arm, gauged ears, and a septum piercing. He wears big round glasses, a Pokemon trainer's baseball hat, swim trunks and a tank top while toting in more beach supplies under his arms.

He adds, "That means sunshine, BBQs, and celebrating-"

"Oh Joy Sex Toy's 13th Birthday!" reads the text on a giant beach umbrella that Matt stakes into the sand. He is a devastatingly handsome white cis British man with salt and pepper hair who has just crossed the threshold into his 40s. He wears square-ish glasses, a t-shirt, shorts, and sneakers.

"We invite you all to chip in to our annual Pledge Drive and support the site this month!" Matt continues.

Kobra @kobrakahn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question." - Carl Sagan

At The Root Collective @at-the-root.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tell the City of Huntsville to provide our unhoused neighbors with free bus fare: c.org/DcFNtXkpcM

Sign the Petition

Tell the city to provide bus passes for participants in the unsheltered docket.

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#MEAction Network @meactnet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It is the unofficial start to summer! Time to help each other survive the heat. What are your most needed items? Temperature dysregulation is a common symptom in ME, making it even harder. For those doing better in the heat- yay! We celebrate with you. Now pass me my fan!

Circular infographic with heat relief tips for M.E./Spoonie individuals, including fans, air conditioning, hydration, sun protection, mobility aids, cooling towels, and misting spray.

Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My new novel is available for pre-order!

VIDEO TOWN NOVEL

NOTE: THIS IS A PRE-ORDER. BOOKS PROJECTED TO SHIP IN JULY 2026. Lunchmeat is uncontrollably VHStoked to announce we are publishing our first original novel entitled VIDEO TOWN! Authored by longt...

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Call your reps. Find your rep here: Reps.fyi Reposting images with alt text

Authors Against Book Bans (AABB) strongly opposes House Resolution 2616 (The "Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids" Act) and the suppressive effects it could have on school libraries and student education. As a coalition of authors, illustrators, editors, and other book creators, we unequivocally support the availability of diverse stories on library shelves and the freedom for every child to exercise their right to read.

The proposed amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 would withhold ESEA funding from schools that "teach or advance concepts related to gender ideology," as defined in section 2 of Executive Order 14168. This attempt to codify the inaccurate definitions outlined in that EO - which falsely equate gender ideology with gender identity - will have detrimental effects throughout our schools and society.
While the bill claims to be about "protecting kids," this is a smoke screen we've seen before. HR 2616, as written, is an attempt to target and eliminate not just trans and nonbinary books, but any mention of the existence of gender non-conforming people.

The proposed amendment narrows the perspectives permitted in school discourse and flouts the long-standing legal precedent that supports constitutionally protected speech in schools.
In his opinion for 1982's Board of Education v. Pico, Justice William J.
Brennan, Jr., wrote:
"In sum, just as access to ideas makes it possible for citizens generally to exercise their rights of free speech and press in a meaningful manner, such access prepares students for active and effective participation in the pluralistic, often contentious society in which they will soon be adult members."

Students have an inalienable right to access literature with diverse ideas and perspectives for their personal and educational development. It would be particularly damaging to those students whose "fully internal and subjective sense of self" (90 Fed. Reg. 8615) is targeted and negated under this bill, who would no longer be able to see themselves reflected in books at school.
We at AABB ask the House Education & Workforce Committee members to consider the potential ramifications of HR 2616 and prevent this bill trom going any turther. We stay committed to doing everything in our power to defend the freedom to read.
Sincerely and respectfully, Authors Against Book Bans

Phil Bildner@philbildner.bsky.social · 3mo ago

CALL YOUR REPS NOW! SPREAD THE WORD! HR 2616 was snuck onto the calendar for a vote TOMORROW. This is a pro book banning bill which seeks to ban ALL books by or about trans individuals.

Kobra @kobrakahn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Wednesday, June 3, 2026 7:00 P.M.

Campaign for Southern Equality @southernequality.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join Red Wine & Blue (@redwineblueusa.bsky.social) and Campaign for Southern Equality for a virtual workshop where you will learn how to fight back against censorship and get diverse books back in your child’s classroom. Register at bit.ly/4nyAT6K

Kobra @kobrakahn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

[Transcript: Intellectual Freedom Round Table 2026 Intellectual Freedom Awards Gerald Hodges Intellectual Freedom Chapter Relations Award: Public Library Directors Association of Alabama John Phillip Immroth Memorial Award: Deborah Caldwell-Stone Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award: Paul T. Jaeger]

ALA Intellectual Freedom Round Table@ifrt-ala.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Congratulations to our 2026 #IFRT Award Winners! Read more about them below! www.ala.org/news/2026/05...

Kobra @kobrakahn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Got a couple young, Black, queer friends in Nashville, TN trying to not get evicted, and they need $530 by this Friday. If you can help, please send funds to $23cashlos24 on Cashapp. ♥

#MEAction Network @meactnet.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Call ME Frail but protect our healthcare. ME must be classified as a “medically frail” condition. Medicaid work requirements threaten to harm our community unless ME/CFS & Long Covid are put into this category of listed diseases. www.meaction.net/savemedicaid #FrailAndFurious #MillionsMissing

Kobra @kobrakahn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today is #MEAwarenessDay. @meactnet.bsky.social is the forerunner in advocating for medical research and support for me/cfs patients who are current invisible, aka the #MillionsMissing.

#MEAction Network@meactnet.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The advocacy we’re rolling out is phenomenal & can only be done with your support! https://millionsmissing.funraise.org #MEAction is meeting with HHS to fight for Medicaid & we’re meeting w/ NIH to discuss funding for the ME/CFS Research Roadmap. Then Congress alongside #NotJustFatigue!

Simple white background with red writing. Frail and Furious Millions Missing fundraiser "This week, MEAction is meeting with HHS, NIH, Congress. We are advocating for ME/CFS research & to protect Medicaid. We can't do this without your support! Fund our work today!

Kobra @kobrakahn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm almost a decade late, but I'm about to attempt Bullet Journaling a la Ryder Carroll. It seems appropriate that I should begin this journey on ME Awareness Day; me/cfs has forced me to track every activity, every heartbeat, in a way that often feels oppressive. Now, I am seeking intentionality.

ZEDtheRED @zedthered.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Perspective. We learned that in art school

Science Magazine@science.org · 3mo ago

Deepfakes are everywhere, but digital forensics investigators are fighting back. Learn more: https://scim.ag/42dMPBg

To verify images, digital forensics investigators will often check whether the geometry of the scene is realistic. In a real photo, lines that run parallel in reality—like floor tiles—should meet at a single vanishing point. In this image, however, the dotted lines do not meet in a single point, indicating it is a fake.
Image: an AI-generated image of soldiers marching down a hallway in three lines, wearing fatigues and carrying rifles. Four dotted white lines have been added over the image, running along the floor tiles visible in the foreground and extending back to where the vanishing point should be, behind the soldiers. Instead of meeting in a single point, the lines all cross at different points.

Kobra @kobrakahn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Well. Shit. [throws my MSW app in the trash]

Willi Morris@williesha.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's official: nursing, social work, physical therapy and many other medical-related students are no longer eligible for professional graduate loans. Here are the sweeping federal student loans changes approved by the Department of Education. More coverage to come. www.al.com/news/2026/05...

Willi Morris @williesha.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Apparently I'm just in a weird place tonight just before bed, because this made me laugh so much. I really needed this. youtube.com/shorts/TNkdc...

The Good Advice... OPOSSUM???

YouTube video by Good Advice Cupcake

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