Catbird Poet
@catbirdpoet.bsky.social
Avant gardener. Occasional musician. Infrequent artist. Aspiring anarchist. I like fizzy drinks and birds. FREE PALESTINE.
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We are just in time to celebrate the birthday of Peter Kropotkin—the geographer, author, and anarchist revolutionary widely known for helping to popularize the concept of mutual aid—with this account detailing his narrow escape from a St. Petersburg prison.
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December 10, 2025 at 4:43 AM
We are just in time to celebrate the birthday of Peter Kropotkin—the geographer, author, and anarchist revolutionary widely known for helping to popularize the concept of mutual aid—with this account detailing his narrow escape from a St. Petersburg prison.
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Danny (character in the movie): "C'mere, let me show you something."
Jeri: "You ever see a botched circumcision?"
Dar: "I used to have an oboe, now i have a clarinet!"
Jeri: "You ever see a botched circumcision?"
Dar: "I used to have an oboe, now i have a clarinet!"
Jeri: "Oboes are a little bigger, aren't they?"
Dar: "They're sort of like uncircumcised clarinets."
#Xanadu
Dar: "They're sort of like uncircumcised clarinets."
#Xanadu
November 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Danny (character in the movie): "C'mere, let me show you something."
Jeri: "You ever see a botched circumcision?"
Dar: "I used to have an oboe, now i have a clarinet!"
Jeri: "You ever see a botched circumcision?"
Dar: "I used to have an oboe, now i have a clarinet!"
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For months, protesters have sought to tie down ICE agents at a holding facility outside Chicago.
Here, participants reflect on this strategy, evaluating it alongside other strategies such as rapid response networks and showing how Democratic politicians have been instrumental in supporting ICE.
Here, participants reflect on this strategy, evaluating it alongside other strategies such as rapid response networks and showing how Democratic politicians have been instrumental in supporting ICE.
Reflections on Resisting ICE in Chicago
Participants in the ongoing protests at the ICE holding facility in Broadview reflect on what has worked and explore the complicity of Democratic politicians with the violence of ICE.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
For months, protesters have sought to tie down ICE agents at a holding facility outside Chicago.
Here, participants reflect on this strategy, evaluating it alongside other strategies such as rapid response networks and showing how Democratic politicians have been instrumental in supporting ICE.
Here, participants reflect on this strategy, evaluating it alongside other strategies such as rapid response networks and showing how Democratic politicians have been instrumental in supporting ICE.
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“hey hangman you promised us pics of plants, this is just a bunch of leaves what gives?” newsflash dumbass, leaves IS plants. leaves provide winter shelter for insects like lightning bugs and butterflies, fertilize the soil, and are a pain in the ass to move anyway so just leave them where you can
November 18, 2024 at 1:48 PM
“hey hangman you promised us pics of plants, this is just a bunch of leaves what gives?” newsflash dumbass, leaves IS plants. leaves provide winter shelter for insects like lightning bugs and butterflies, fertilize the soil, and are a pain in the ass to move anyway so just leave them where you can
Two lonely universes
bopping solo in the void…
bopping solo in the void…
Wednesday.
11.19.25
Just Imagine.
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11.19.25
Just Imagine.
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November 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Two lonely universes
bopping solo in the void…
bopping solo in the void…
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Don't fuck with Little Orphan Annie.
November 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Don't fuck with Little Orphan Annie.
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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They tell us that dangerous people are on the loose, threatening our communities.
But if anyone is dangerous, it is those who would do harm to their neighbors in return for a bribe—those who sell their capacity to inflict violence to the highest bidder.
Crush ICE.
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But if anyone is dangerous, it is those who would do harm to their neighbors in return for a bribe—those who sell their capacity to inflict violence to the highest bidder.
Crush ICE.
crimethinc.com/zines/seven-...
November 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
They tell us that dangerous people are on the loose, threatening our communities.
But if anyone is dangerous, it is those who would do harm to their neighbors in return for a bribe—those who sell their capacity to inflict violence to the highest bidder.
Crush ICE.
crimethinc.com/zines/seven-...
But if anyone is dangerous, it is those who would do harm to their neighbors in return for a bribe—those who sell their capacity to inflict violence to the highest bidder.
Crush ICE.
crimethinc.com/zines/seven-...
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They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
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capitalism rules, I love doing extensive research any time I need to replace something because roughly 94% of all products are scam garbage
November 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
capitalism rules, I love doing extensive research any time I need to replace something because roughly 94% of all products are scam garbage
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"Last week, I watched a flaneur spend his entire afternoon staring at a blank piece of cardboard. When my manager asked what he was doing, the man responded that he was 'Kinda just raw-dogging the Montmartre, waiting for the light to hit.'"
I’m the Owner of This All Day Café in Nineteenth-Century Paris: Can We Stop It with the Fucking Easels?
I opened this café with the best of intentions: to provide a salon par excellence with a focus on good food and live entertainment, a third place t...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:00 AM
"Last week, I watched a flaneur spend his entire afternoon staring at a blank piece of cardboard. When my manager asked what he was doing, the man responded that he was 'Kinda just raw-dogging the Montmartre, waiting for the light to hit.'"
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Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
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This was horrific to watch. Agents entering a daycare, wrestling with and abducting a teacher in front of small screaming children. I just… what the fuck are we doing here.
this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
This was horrific to watch. Agents entering a daycare, wrestling with and abducting a teacher in front of small screaming children. I just… what the fuck are we doing here.
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Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it
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whos in the social media bubble now you gooncel freaks
November 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
whos in the social media bubble now you gooncel freaks
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Buncha supposed politics experts are going to spend the next week looking at a young charismatic candidate with an optimistic message like it’s some cryptic formula for cold fusion
November 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Buncha supposed politics experts are going to spend the next week looking at a young charismatic candidate with an optimistic message like it’s some cryptic formula for cold fusion
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
TIL that the founder of @wikipedia.org, Jimmy Wales, is a Zionist piece of shit. He has blocked anyone from making updates to the Gaza Genocide article because he doesn't agree that it's genocide.
Libraries, encyclopedias and books exist. We don't need his Zionist-revisionist internet slop. 🖤
Libraries, encyclopedias and books exist. We don't need his Zionist-revisionist internet slop. 🖤
November 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
TIL that the founder of @wikipedia.org, Jimmy Wales, is a Zionist piece of shit. He has blocked anyone from making updates to the Gaza Genocide article because he doesn't agree that it's genocide.
Libraries, encyclopedias and books exist. We don't need his Zionist-revisionist internet slop. 🖤
Libraries, encyclopedias and books exist. We don't need his Zionist-revisionist internet slop. 🖤
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
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if you’re at “secretly install apps on your partner’s phone to surveil their activity” levels of mistrust i’m going to go out on a limb and say: you don’t like this person. don’t date people you don’t like.
Just fell down a rabbit hole of apps that you can secretly install on people’s phones to notify you if they watch porn and holy shit what is wrong with everyone
November 3, 2025 at 5:01 AM
if you’re at “secretly install apps on your partner’s phone to surveil their activity” levels of mistrust i’m going to go out on a limb and say: you don’t like this person. don’t date people you don’t like.
Your moment of zen:
The winner: Luigi Mangione
The prize: the first two hits of the insanely tough to smash open piñata.
The prize: the first two hits of the insanely tough to smash open piñata.
November 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Your moment of zen:
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And I shall skeet this dinner…parking lot. Cold outside. Two dudes looked at me and now I feel anxious. Where’s Riot? Should I get elotes? A boxer dog looks at me from the car next to mine (a blue Subaru) as loud music blasts from a large white truck. Riot has arrived. Yay.
alright i'm going to grab dinner with @catbirdpoet.bsky.social . I've got about 20 min of this movie left, which for as much as i'm pausing to skeet, will probs take 45 to get through. will finish up when i get back.
October 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
And I shall skeet this dinner…parking lot. Cold outside. Two dudes looked at me and now I feel anxious. Where’s Riot? Should I get elotes? A boxer dog looks at me from the car next to mine (a blue Subaru) as loud music blasts from a large white truck. Riot has arrived. Yay.
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Here's a great reason to boycott Home Depot if you weren't already
For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.
October 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Here's a great reason to boycott Home Depot if you weren't already