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fred

@isawaduckonce.bsky.social

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Still a massive bitch but now escaped from the clutches of El*n M*sk. RPG and horror enthusiast, currently freaking out abt Oblivion Remastered and Skyrim (again). 23, cis, bi, white, she/her

Si vous parlez français je m'excuse en avance

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Fun

@funkelly.bsky.social

mariah carey is wearing trans colors and a jacket that says "protect the dolls" on the back at Brighton pride tonight 🤌

August 3, 2025 at 2:41 AM

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The Last Mile with USAID

@thelastmileusaid.bsky.social

EPA just suspended 139 staff for signing a “Declaration of Dissent” against Trump-era policies. Escorted out like criminals—for defending science and climate truth. This isn’t discipline—it’s a purge. Authoritarianism in a lab coat.
Read: www.cnn.com/2025/07/03/c...

EPA suspends and investigates around 140 employees who signed a letter critical of the agency | CNN

EPA administrator Lee Zeldin had a sharp response to the employee-signed letter.

www.cnn.com

July 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM

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Erin Fogg says Free Link

@criminalerin.bsky.social

FBI: Do u know Karl Marx

Mahmood Mamdani: Haven’t met him

FBI: No, he's dead

Mamdani: Wow, what happened?

FBI: No, no, he died long ago

Mamdani: Why are you asking me?

FBI: He wrote that poor people should not be poor

Mamdani: Sounds wonderful

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BS: Was there a feeling of exile?

MM: It wasn’t exile. I barely had a sense of the world, even though, when I was a high school student, my father used to take me to political rallies. But I didn’t really have any sense of it. I thought the British had no business being there, but that was it, no more than that. I didn’t have a sense of outrage. I didn’t have a sense of great injustice. I did have [a sense] of the color bar, yes, because I knew there was a white area and you couldn’t go there – or if you went to see your scout master, who was British, you had to stand outside…all those things.

But it’s really here I got a sense of it, because a friend of mine took me to a SNCC [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] meeting, six or seven months after I was here. At the end of the meeting they announced that buses were going to Montgomery, Alabaman, to demonstrate. I went there, got beaten up, thrown in jail…

MM: One night. They let you make one phone call, and I called the Ugandan Ambassador in Washington, DC, talked to him, and he said, “What are you doing interfering in the affairs of a foreign country?” I said, “What? We just got our independence! This is the same struggle. Have you forgotten?” Anyway, he got me out. Two or three weeks later, I was in my room. There was a knock at the door. Two gentlemen in trench coats and hats said, “FBI.” I thought, “Wow, just like on television.” They sat down. They were there to find out why I had gone – because this turned out to be big – it is after Montgomery that King organized his march on Selma. They wanted to know who had influenced me. After one hour of probing, the guy said, “Do you like Marx?”

I said, “I haven’t met him.”

Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.”

“Wow, what happened?”

“No, no, he died long ago.”

I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?”

“No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.”

I said, “Sounds amazing.”

I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx.

I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx.

BS: The FBI.

MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But, basically, it is the US – the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement – which gave me a new take on my own experience, and on the Asian experience in east Africa. It gave me a way of rethinking my own experience of growing up in east Africa and growing up in an Africa with a lens crafted by the civil rights movement.

July 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM

fred

@isawaduckonce.bsky.social

There's a very strange and bad horror movie called Funhouse starring the baby face Skarsgård (Valter I think) and I am fascinated by it. It is the worst thing I've ever seen

Dr Fall of Fascism, Crushed ICE lattes @pwr2dppl.bsky.social · Jul 5

How many Skarsgårds could there be, Michael?

Lucille Bluth talking to Michael, from the show Arrested Development

July 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM

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Robyn Holdaway

@robynholdaway.bsky.social

This has been one of the most controversial videos I have ever made. It has elicited hundreds of abusive and sometimes threatening messages.
It is 7 seconds long.
I don't ask people to do anything, and I am not rude.
I simply, unapologetically, state that I exist.
This is why we still need pride.

July 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

🚨 ICE disappeared a woman on Wednesday night. She was grabbed by men in plainclothes and taken to an unidentified location.

ICE is refusing to say where she is being held. It’s 72 hours later and not even a dedicated team of lawyers can find her.

This is WRONG. We can’t let this be the new norm.

June 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM

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ave

@halotits.bsky.social

character selection screens:

June 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM

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Destiny Sugarbuns

@destinysugarbuns.bsky.social

Subtitles, because everyone should have access to this content and not just hearing people:

White man lawyer: "This could have been three separate-"
Judge: "Ok, but it wasn't three separate- let's go with what happened in the case."
(1 of 4)

Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · Jun 19

I need all of #lawsky to see this video from a Colorado appeals court livestream yesterday. I am in actual tears. Sound *incredibly* on, the subtitles will not help.

June 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM

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Celine

@celineloup.bsky.social

Weird to see ppl in the comments being like "we can't know if he's a misogynist in his heart, look how sorry he is!"

My brothers and sisters in christ, he is only sorry because he forgot he was talking to a judge

Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · Jun 19

I need all of #lawsky to see this video from a Colorado appeals court livestream yesterday. I am in actual tears. Sound *incredibly* on, the subtitles will not help.

June 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM

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Smooth Dunk

@smoothdunk2.bsky.social

guys we HAVE to get rid of DEI. it’s about FAIRNESS

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
Pink Guy is attending an interview with the chief exec and CEO of a company.
CEO: “Our company does not adhere to DEI hiring practices

Panel 2:
CEO continues: “We believe in hiring based strictly on qualifications”

Panel 3:
Pink Guy interjects and says “Actually, DEI is about addressing a systemic imbalance in-
CHIEF EXEC butts in: HEY

Panel 4:
CHIEF EXEC: Don’t talk back to my dad

June 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM

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Cooperstreaming ♿️

@cooperstreaming.bsky.social

It's possible she may be guilty of this crime, but it's unreasonable for her to pay too high a price for 20 seconds of action. Think of her future! Girls will be girls.

A screenshot of a headline that reads Coast guard vet lured her accused rapist to the woods executed him and then went to get a tattoo by David Harris May 27th 2025 443 p.m. pictured below is a split screen of the accused and the murdered side by side. On the left the accused is a woman with dark hair blunt bangs and a neck tattoo. On the right is a white man with glasses with a leather jacket and a hood on.

May 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM

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Blue In A Red State

@bluenredstate.bsky.social

May 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social

@womensartbluesky.bsky.social

Alexandra Buckle, contemporary printmaker known for her woodland scenes created via linocuts #WomensArt

Print featuring a lush green woodland scene with dappled bright sunlight and reflections on a stream to the right

May 25, 2025 at 5:11 AM

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NY Times Pitchbot

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social

I am a staunch free speech supporter. But after ten years of freaking out about woke students deplatforming right-wing speakers, I don't have the energy to pivot to criticizing a fascist president for launching an all-out attack on free expression at universities.

May 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM

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Jav

@thetrashpeople.bsky.social

i feel so seen by this image and i hate it

May 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM

fred

@isawaduckonce.bsky.social

Had a mental breakdown all day yesterday and then stayed up all night playing Skyrim. It's like I'm 15 again!

May 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM

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cait (and adonis)

@cait.bsky.social

May 21, 2025 at 4:08 AM

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soul nate

@mnateshyamalan.bsky.social

wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey?

guard: [looking away] fine

wife: did something happen?

guard: [tearing up] no

wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?

May 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM