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naturalized US citizen born in soviet bloc. who we are is less important than what we want and we want everything, for everyone. @OldSquida2@kolektiva.social (i lost my password 🙄)
Scenes from the Feast of the Transfiguration celebrations in Syria’s historic town of Maaloula, where mountaintops were illuminated with fires in a centuries-old tradition that defines the city’s unique heritage.
“When you don’t have a story or narrative that explains why you feel a deep sadness or emotional pain, it makes you believe that you don’t have permission to have those thoughts, feelings, and emotions.”
Depression Without Narrative
When you don’t have a recognizable story or compelling narrative, depression feels impossible to justify — both to others and to yourself.
therapyinterrupted.substack.com
“Historians say up to 200 German warships were scuttled in September 1944 near Prahovo in the Danube gorge as they came under Soviet fire. The idea behind the deliberate sinking was to slow down the Soviet advance in the Balkans.”
The Danube river is so low that Nazi warships are emerging
Europe's second-longest river is carrying less water than it has in decades, revealing shipwrecks and shutting down nuclear reactors.
abc.net.au
CZM Rewind: Crisis Hotlines: Of Course Queers Invented Them ⏪ Margaret continues talking to you about the history of suicide prevention hotlines and the complications of state intervention in emergency mental health care @margaret.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social linktr.ee/coolpeoplepod
“I brought all my memories with me” says Nisrine, displaced from South #Lebanon. At the height of the war in Lebanon, more than one million people were forced to leave their homes. https://www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/lebanon-memories-of-home-and-hope-for-return-for-displaced-families/
Afghanistan is facing a severe humanitarian crisis 5 years after U.S. military withdrawal and the 2025 termination of U.S. humanitarian aid. Join us on August 13 for our latest findings & America’s enduring responsibility to the Afghan people. support.refugeesinternational.org/a/deadly-imp...
It's kinda crazy that a bunch of Chicago pigs are embezzling millions from Seattle in a WFH scheme and city council is running cover for them
Going to be an extremely long few months but I hope that Democrats writ large start to adapt this attitude toward Islamophobia instead of the party's establishment members stoking the flames themselves.
Truthout@truthout.org · 3h agoRepublicans nearly immediately resorted to Islamophobic attacks after Abdul El-Sayed's win in Michigan, sparking defiance from El-Sayed. “They want to use my whole name against me,” El-Sayed said. “Mike, listen, man. If you can’t say the name, it’s Abdulrahman, keep the name out your damn mouth.”
100% Also, lol: “the AI was able to access the public internet because of an error in the set up of the ‘sandbox’ testing environment.” I imagine there are similar explanations for all of these.
Jon Keegan@jonkeegan.com · 1h agoIt's hard to read this and not think that this is Meta not wanting to be left out of the super-dangerous / super-powerful AI club.
NEW: Locked Up and Criminalized: People on the Move Face a Broken System on Crete’s Shores People on the move arriving on Crete are held in makeshift facilities where they have no rights, as authorities freeze asylum registration while implementing the EU’s contested new Migration and Asylum Pact.
Locked Up and Criminalized: People on the Move Face a Broken System on Crete’s Shores - UNICORN RIOT
People on the move arriving on Crete are held in makeshift facilities where they have no rights, as authorities freeze asylum registration while implementing the EU’s contested new Migration and Asylu...
unicornriot.ninja
“To unmask anonymous online critics, DHS has sent hundreds of subpoenas to social-media companies, according to people familiar with the matter. Its agents have tracked down Americans at work and on the road, asking them to sign letters acknowledging their online speech about ICE “may” be a crime.”
Civil Liberties Defense Center@cldc03.bsky.social · 2h agoGreat article in Wall Street Journal about how ICE is weaponizing social media platforms and what CLDC is doing to stop it! www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Support trans workers at the University of Washington Google form to express interest: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 2023 Equity Survey Report: 75% of transgender people surveyed reported experiencing harassment at University of Washington. uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/u...
![Support Trans Workers!
Postdocs and research staff at the University of Washington are bargaining for a new contract this summer. To address the worsening conditions for transgender people across the country, we proposed a memorandum of understanding to:
Improve data privacy for anyone (regardless of identity) changing their name, and to wave their ID card replacement fee
Provide sensitivity training for supervisors of trans workers, to prevent harassment. The equity survey jointly administered by UW and UAW 4121 shows that transgender people at UW are harassed 3x more than cisgender people [1].
Secure a fund to support costs of gender transition.
Admin has rejected our proposal twice now, each time citing concerns we’ve already addressed. When pressed to explain his reservations, admin’s lead negotiator said: “I am not speaking in terms of facts.” “I haven’t been advised or done any research.” How are we supposed to work with that?
University of Washington admin pride themselves on being part of a trans friendly institution. At the ceremonial pride flag raising, they honored the recently murdered trans girl and UW student Juniper Blessing with a new scholarship [2]. But when asked to simply waive the costs of replacing an ID card for anyone, cis or trans, who changes their name, they moan that we’re asking for “special treatment” and fear-monger about the federal government. How do admin really feel about the queer community? Seattle is a sanctuary city for many trans people fleeing violence from across the country. What precedent does it set if the largest employer in the city refuses to bargain over basic protections?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ec473dzaukltzxnvcjmgwrw6/bafkreihs2ufyolayp2nm66ctspmkv6haqvqiq3alrtw6gipqbdztnkl3he)
Puget Sound Labor News Tracker@pnwlabortracker.bsky.social · 3h agoPostdocs and research staff at the Unversity of Washington, organized through @uaw4121.bsky.social, are asking community members to write to the UW VP of HR to demand that UW not slash anti-discrimination protections. See more here: uaw4121.org/trans-equity/
Important to note that Metro Vancouver opted to wave away workers' concerns of unsafe work, in a province where the right to refuse unsafe work is protected. Worker safety should be a priority. vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/08/05/m...
Metro Vancouver workers renew job action, citing sewage spill and stalled talks
The union representing Metro Vancouver outside workers says it has withdrawn members from liquid-waste operations in Burnaby.
vancouver.citynews.ca
Distro’d in NoMA last weekend with hygiene supplies, snacks, water, & as always rolling papers & lighters were a huge hit. Folks deserve things that make their day a little better not just the bare necessities! Donate to keep our biweekly distro rolling $RemoraHouseDC or givebutter.com/remorahouse
In a lawsuit about DHS overreach, the government is trying to force the protestors to turn over all their Signal chats and explain who is running them. “You shouldn’t have to give up that First Amendment right to expressive association if you need to sue to protect your First Amendment rights”
DHS Wants Protesters’ Signal Group Chats
A lawsuit accuses Homeland Security of violating protesters’ free-speech rights—but the agency is using it to try to get access to the plaintiffs’ encrypted communications.
wired.com
To the International Anarchist Movement: Three Security Proposals 2024 “It is now available in 12 languages: Czech, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Mandarin (Simplified and Traditional), Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Tagalog.” Read or download:
To the International Anarchist Movement: Three Security Proposals | No Trace Project
notrace.how
No, it’s not ‘normal’ for humans to be in competition all the time. It’s not normal to work for most of your waking hours of the day. It’s not normal to be stressed 24/7. Stop taking a few hundred years of capitalism and pretending that’s just how being human is. It’s not.
“There are lots of children, newborns, elderly & disabled people & those with complicated illnesses who are struggling in this heat…What this government doesn’t seem to understand is that if we had a decent job & could earn money, then we wouldn’t be in this situation.” ~ Petronela Podaro
Hundreds camp in Rome heatwave as Meloni government cracks down on squats
Spin Time provides homes, food banks and after-school clubs but the authorities have locked out residents
theguardian.com
please help! the oldest squat of Winterthur/CH in Switzerland is imminently threatened to be evicted in August. Gisi, at General-Gusian-Street 31, was squatted in January 1997 & is until now used as home for a lot of people without much money as a social meeting point & non-profit culturals space.
Winterthur: Defend all squats, defend decent housing for all! Gisi bleibt!
en.squat.net
Visiblement, l'extrême droite québécoise veut remettre en question l'accès à l'avortement dans le cadre des prochaines élections L'accès aux IVG est un enjeu majeur au Qc. Dans plusieurs régions, les services sont inaccessibles ou inexistants, ce qui force les femmes à voyager pour avoir du service
Angers de Poitrine@mpangers.bsky.social · 12h agoLe PCQ est rendu trop woke pour Richard. 🤦
1/2 through writing this I said 'This reads like I don't touch grass.😅" While I could be wrong, after years of observing radicalization while in the trenches so to speak, antifash researchers oft know fash motivations better than they know their damn lost minds. Fascism accelerates to death, kids.
IndigiTrans@indigitrans.bsky.social · 5h agoHe doesn't seem a Tate bro fan based on my observations.He seemed polite, i.e. not drawn into the cocky dbag anti-feminist world, but he did have awkward virgin incel vibes. So Fuentes maybe, but moreso cuz he's very aMeriCA 1sT! in that simpleton racist way of blaming brown ppl of why life sucks.
As they say, he was a Very Good Boy (cue vid of him biting at firehose water meant to repel activists)
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 4h agoNew free podcast: About a street dog named Negro Matapacos (“Black Cop-Killer”), who consistently joined demonstrators in confronting police in a nationwide uprising in Chile in 2019. Listen today, wherever you get your podcasts, or go to our website: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e125...
In all honesty, sorry, the US-centric resistance lib vibe on here would help to change. Bluesky is pretty useless outside of US politics too at this point. It does need to expand — and can while keeping the Hitlerites elsewhere.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Looks like Jeremy is threatening to go 0-2 in lawsuits against right-wingers. Why are they all such piss babies? canadaantifa.blogspot.com/2026/08/jere...
