beccatronic.bsky.social
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Chaotic creative personality into sparkles and pixels & writing & scuba diving & dancing & food & exploring & dismantling oppressive systems. 🇵🇸
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Wikipedia is the best single thing the Internet has ever given us and it's not even close
Two Wikipedia contributors averted a potential tragedy at a conference for the site’s editors on Friday in Manhattan when they jumped in to take down a man with a gun.
Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference
After the man walked onto the stage at the “Wiki World’s Fair” event and threatened to kill himself, witnesses said, two members of the audience jumped in to stop him.
nyti.ms
October 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Wikipedia is the best single thing the Internet has ever given us and it's not even close
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this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility
July 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility
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Children are dying of starvation, many are severely malnourished and medical staff becoming too malnourished to work while aid is withheld other than Israel sanctioned sites where people risk being shot. This scale of suffering is utterly inhumane - when will governments act?
Global outcry grows over Israel’s killing of starving civilians in Gaza
UN secretary general warns ‘last lifelines’ may soon collapse after Israeli forces attack WHO facilities in Deir al-Balah
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Children are dying of starvation, many are severely malnourished and medical staff becoming too malnourished to work while aid is withheld other than Israel sanctioned sites where people risk being shot. This scale of suffering is utterly inhumane - when will governments act?
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Infinite love and support to the people of Iran and Palestine and anywhere else on earth unfortunate enough to be caught in the stupid, bloodthirsty gaze of America and Israel
June 22, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Infinite love and support to the people of Iran and Palestine and anywhere else on earth unfortunate enough to be caught in the stupid, bloodthirsty gaze of America and Israel
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Hello, Chicago! Got Saturday plans? Join me and others as we honor the legacy of Octavia E. Butler on the solstice and the day before her actual birthday!
Register here!
www.eventbrite.com/e/octavia-bu...
Register here!
www.eventbrite.com/e/octavia-bu...
June 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Hello, Chicago! Got Saturday plans? Join me and others as we honor the legacy of Octavia E. Butler on the solstice and the day before her actual birthday!
Register here!
www.eventbrite.com/e/octavia-bu...
Register here!
www.eventbrite.com/e/octavia-bu...
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Israel hasn't stopped gunning down the Palestinians they're starving, as those Palestinians try to feed themselves
There is nothing wrong with continuing to say it: these are war crimes, this is genocide, this is murder. It must be stopped, and those perpetrating the crimes must be held accountable
There is nothing wrong with continuing to say it: these are war crimes, this is genocide, this is murder. It must be stopped, and those perpetrating the crimes must be held accountable
June 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Israel hasn't stopped gunning down the Palestinians they're starving, as those Palestinians try to feed themselves
There is nothing wrong with continuing to say it: these are war crimes, this is genocide, this is murder. It must be stopped, and those perpetrating the crimes must be held accountable
There is nothing wrong with continuing to say it: these are war crimes, this is genocide, this is murder. It must be stopped, and those perpetrating the crimes must be held accountable
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Was just thinking, it is really nice to know that so many people agree that kidnapping our neighbors sucks beyond words.
June 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Was just thinking, it is really nice to know that so many people agree that kidnapping our neighbors sucks beyond words.
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It is bizarre the way people with guns, bulletproof vests, riot shields, tanks, and other military gear act like rocks are an equal threat. It’s madness! If you are scared of rocks and think the punishment for having them thrown at you should be death, you shouldn’t be in law enforcement!
June 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
It is bizarre the way people with guns, bulletproof vests, riot shields, tanks, and other military gear act like rocks are an equal threat. It’s madness! If you are scared of rocks and think the punishment for having them thrown at you should be death, you shouldn’t be in law enforcement!
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The cruelty in today's politics feels horribly corrosive. Bringing up that hard-working immigrant families — undocumented, yes, but not violent criminals — are being ripped apart based on immigration status doesn't bring compassion or even pause, but gleeful cheers.
June 12, 2025 at 7:25 AM
The cruelty in today's politics feels horribly corrosive. Bringing up that hard-working immigrant families — undocumented, yes, but not violent criminals — are being ripped apart based on immigration status doesn't bring compassion or even pause, but gleeful cheers.
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If this open Nazi shit makes you feel safe, your soul is broken.
A man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind.
“They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.”
www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
“They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.”
www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
ICE raids have 'overwhelmed' coastal California communities
Communities in three California counties "overwhelmed" as ICE raids ramp up in the region.
www.sfgate.com
May 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
If this open Nazi shit makes you feel safe, your soul is broken.
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She’s out!! They have released Ozturk from ICE custody!
May 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
She’s out!! They have released Ozturk from ICE custody!
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SICKOS YES YES YES
CBC finally calls Carleton - the Canadian Tory leader Pierre Poilievre has lost his own seat
April 29, 2025 at 9:18 AM
SICKOS YES YES YES
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A 2-year old US Citizen was deported Friday to Honduras.
“The judge on Friday scheduled a hearing for May 16, which he said was ‘in the interest of dispelling our strong suspicion that the Government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.’”
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
“The judge on Friday scheduled a hearing for May 16, which he said was ‘in the interest of dispelling our strong suspicion that the Government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.’”
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’
The girl was deported Friday with her mother to Honduras, despite her father’s efforts to keep her in the United States.
www.politico.com
April 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
A 2-year old US Citizen was deported Friday to Honduras.
“The judge on Friday scheduled a hearing for May 16, which he said was ‘in the interest of dispelling our strong suspicion that the Government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.’”
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
“The judge on Friday scheduled a hearing for May 16, which he said was ‘in the interest of dispelling our strong suspicion that the Government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.’”
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
It’s so damn evil.
I have an elderly family member with mental health challenges. Bureaucratic documents make him feel paranoid, like he has done something wrong. It has massive impacts on him. At times he has gone missing or needed hospitalization in these moments.
This letter would ruin him.
I have an elderly family member with mental health challenges. Bureaucratic documents make him feel paranoid, like he has done something wrong. It has massive impacts on him. At times he has gone missing or needed hospitalization in these moments.
This letter would ruin him.
The Department of Homeland Security told a Neenah man that he had days to leave the country. He's a U.S. citizen who never immigrated anywhere. www.wpr.org/news/federal...
'The federal government will find you': Immigration officials wrongfully told a Fox Valley man to leave the US
A 68-year-old Fox Valley man, who was born in western Pennsylvania, recently received a notice from federal immigration officials telling him to leave the country or face removal.
www.wpr.org
April 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
It’s so damn evil.
I have an elderly family member with mental health challenges. Bureaucratic documents make him feel paranoid, like he has done something wrong. It has massive impacts on him. At times he has gone missing or needed hospitalization in these moments.
This letter would ruin him.
I have an elderly family member with mental health challenges. Bureaucratic documents make him feel paranoid, like he has done something wrong. It has massive impacts on him. At times he has gone missing or needed hospitalization in these moments.
This letter would ruin him.
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She wrote an article in the student newspaper. That’s all she did. The U.S. can’t call itself a free country if that gets you sent to jail.
Our union sister, Rümeysa Öztürk, has been detained by ICE for exercising her right to free speech. Please consider contributing to or sharing this fundraiser organized by Rümeysa's immigration court legal team:
Justice for Rümeysa Öztürk
Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,
chuffed.org
April 17, 2025 at 5:01 AM
She wrote an article in the student newspaper. That’s all she did. The U.S. can’t call itself a free country if that gets you sent to jail.
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Again, this is how you know the whole DOGE thing is absolute bullshit. We’re apparently on the brink of financial ruin at all times when it comes to Social Security or healthcare or college in this country while simultaneously there’s infinite money when it comes to war.
President Trump announces he'll be requesting a record-breaking $1 trillion Pentagon budget.
"$1 trillion, and nobody's seen anything like it. We have to build our military and we're very cost conscious. But the military is something that we have to build, and we have to be strong"
"$1 trillion, and nobody's seen anything like it. We have to build our military and we're very cost conscious. But the military is something that we have to build, and we have to be strong"
April 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Again, this is how you know the whole DOGE thing is absolute bullshit. We’re apparently on the brink of financial ruin at all times when it comes to Social Security or healthcare or college in this country while simultaneously there’s infinite money when it comes to war.
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the present shortcoming is not that people protesting are cringe it's that there isn't presently a mass commitment to the kind of action that would force regime change.
that isn't a criticism, just an observation. these things take time. and with time all things are possible.
that isn't a criticism, just an observation. these things take time. and with time all things are possible.
April 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
the present shortcoming is not that people protesting are cringe it's that there isn't presently a mass commitment to the kind of action that would force regime change.
that isn't a criticism, just an observation. these things take time. and with time all things are possible.
that isn't a criticism, just an observation. these things take time. and with time all things are possible.
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1. Stop assuming people announce all their activism on social media.
2. Stop demanding people announce all their activism on social media.
3. Stop deriding people for not announcing all their activism on social media.
4. Dunking on people on social media isn't activism and isn't praxis.
2. Stop demanding people announce all their activism on social media.
3. Stop deriding people for not announcing all their activism on social media.
4. Dunking on people on social media isn't activism and isn't praxis.
April 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
1. Stop assuming people announce all their activism on social media.
2. Stop demanding people announce all their activism on social media.
3. Stop deriding people for not announcing all their activism on social media.
4. Dunking on people on social media isn't activism and isn't praxis.
2. Stop demanding people announce all their activism on social media.
3. Stop deriding people for not announcing all their activism on social media.
4. Dunking on people on social media isn't activism and isn't praxis.
Today’s protests were big.
Now add the huge numbers of people who, with good reason, would not feel safe making their anger with the administration public right now.
This movement is even bigger than big.
Now add the huge numbers of people who, with good reason, would not feel safe making their anger with the administration public right now.
This movement is even bigger than big.
April 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Today’s protests were big.
Now add the huge numbers of people who, with good reason, would not feel safe making their anger with the administration public right now.
This movement is even bigger than big.
Now add the huge numbers of people who, with good reason, would not feel safe making their anger with the administration public right now.
This movement is even bigger than big.
Good thread on the importance of protest.
I’ve always held to heart the idea that protests aren’t the work, they’re the promise to do the work.
It is a meaningful step forward to see so many rise up.
I’ve always held to heart the idea that protests aren’t the work, they’re the promise to do the work.
It is a meaningful step forward to see so many rise up.
Protests aren’t the only tool in the anti-authoritarian toolkit, but they’re incredibly important. Protests help us see each other; they make it feel safer to refuse to obey the dictator, and make it more possible for us to organize mass non-cooperation.
It’s an essential step in the process.
It’s an essential step in the process.
April 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Good thread on the importance of protest.
I’ve always held to heart the idea that protests aren’t the work, they’re the promise to do the work.
It is a meaningful step forward to see so many rise up.
I’ve always held to heart the idea that protests aren’t the work, they’re the promise to do the work.
It is a meaningful step forward to see so many rise up.
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Protests aren’t the only tool in the anti-authoritarian toolkit, but they’re incredibly important. Protests help us see each other; they make it feel safer to refuse to obey the dictator, and make it more possible for us to organize mass non-cooperation.
It’s an essential step in the process.
It’s an essential step in the process.
April 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Protests aren’t the only tool in the anti-authoritarian toolkit, but they’re incredibly important. Protests help us see each other; they make it feel safer to refuse to obey the dictator, and make it more possible for us to organize mass non-cooperation.
It’s an essential step in the process.
It’s an essential step in the process.
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"The Palestine Red Crescent Society spokeswoman, Nebal Farsakh, said in an interview from the West Bank city of Ramallah that the paramedic who filmed the video was later found with a bullet in his head in the mass grave."
Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article)
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM
"The Palestine Red Crescent Society spokeswoman, Nebal Farsakh, said in an interview from the West Bank city of Ramallah that the paramedic who filmed the video was later found with a bullet in his head in the mass grave."
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This article, on Gen X creative workers, overstates some points but wow there is some truth here. I see it in my peers and so many others, all with immense talent but struggling to find a place to put it.
(Gift article)
The Gen X Career Meltdown
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
(Gift article)
The Gen X Career Meltdown
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Gen X Career Meltdown (Gift Article)
Just when they should be at their peak, experienced workers in creative fields find that their skills are all but obsolete.
www.nytimes.com
April 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
This article, on Gen X creative workers, overstates some points but wow there is some truth here. I see it in my peers and so many others, all with immense talent but struggling to find a place to put it.
(Gift article)
The Gen X Career Meltdown
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
(Gift article)
The Gen X Career Meltdown
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Elon Musk: pours tens of millions into a race that has never seen even a fraction of that much money. bribes multiple voters with $1 million checks to vote. offers any Wisconsin voter who proves they voted $50. wears a fucking cheesehead
Wisconsin: votes against his candidate by historic margins
Wisconsin: votes against his candidate by historic margins
April 2, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Elon Musk: pours tens of millions into a race that has never seen even a fraction of that much money. bribes multiple voters with $1 million checks to vote. offers any Wisconsin voter who proves they voted $50. wears a fucking cheesehead
Wisconsin: votes against his candidate by historic margins
Wisconsin: votes against his candidate by historic margins