khiwanean.bsky.social
@khiwanean.bsky.social
long-haired leftist cat lady
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"If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, that's not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. They haven't pulled the knife out; they won't even admit that it's there." —Malcolm X
November 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"

guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.

So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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I feel more like this with every passing year.

We need a party that is committed to preserving, protecting & improving life. We don’t need people intent on endlessly negotiating how much humanity we deserve or if we deserve any at all.

We don’t need a society built around manufactured scarcity.
This pretty much sums up the entire ideological dispute between the two American political parties.

What they are arguing about, on almost all issues, is either methodology or magnitude. That is literally it.

The party of We Will Kill You vs the party of We Will Let You Die.
To be clear, Lindsey Graham, an American senator, has gone on the most popular Sunday morning current events show in the country and suggested that we drop nuclear bombs on Palestinians.

While they may differ in methodology, both parties agree that Palestinians should be eliminated.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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okay, so, with Dems successfully keeping anyone up in 2026 for voting for this turd let's take a look at who's up in 2026 anyway:

1. Cory Booker - apparently involved behind the scenes, constantly looking for bipartisanship. I don't dislike him personally but he doesn't have what we need. Primary.
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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I’m going to keep mentioning how heavily people leaned on the “actually, poor Black people don’t go to elite schools, we need more investment at the community level” argument when affirmative action was before the court, and how fucking silent they are now.
November 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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me: time to sign up for healthcare for 2026, I remember when the first year of 'obamacare' happened I paid less than 100 bucks a month for insurance, I bet it's just exactly the same for this year

also me, 10 minutes later: jesus CHRIST
November 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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70/1000 for the month, need meds and food
NOVEMBER #MUTUALAID! I had to dip into my savings to eat last month because Colorado and likely will again in a few weeks. I'm def not getting enough sales and comms so please maybe support me this way. Disabled person/couple needs money.

C: $FallonBinns
V: fallon-binns

#MAV #TransCrowdfund
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November 4, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]
October 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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this is a great idea. also please don't forget that November has 30 days, so if you're skint now, you can come in clutch mid-month
Rough math: 12.3% of Americans (41.7 mil) are about to lose SNAP. Many food banks produce 3 meals per $1, so a November worth of meals for one costs $30. Round it up to $35 for asst. costs & hygiene products. If 13% of us donate $35 each to food banks, we can get everyone through Nov! #EndHunger 🥙💪
October 28, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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right wing bigots have admitted

- the “trans women in bathrooms” issue

- the “trans women in sports” issue and

- the “trans kids getting surgery” issue

were all MADE UP TO TAKE OUR RIGHTS AWAY

are you paying attention?
October 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Disabled people should be allowed to get married without losing our healthcare. We shouldn’t have to choose between weddings and staying alive. In 2025 we still have no marriage rights or property rights. We never have, and it’s total shit. Fuck Eugenics, we deserve so much better.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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90 FUCKING PERCENT

i’d love for cis folks to remember what the nyt, atlantic, guardian, daily mail, times of london, ny post, cnn, wall street journal, & economist took from your transgender neighbors & loved ones before the next time you consider giving them money or listening to a word they say.
It’s almost like when you don’t have a rabidly trans-hostile media ecosystem, people generally support human rights.

lens.monash.edu/@politics-so...
October 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Also, the U.S. gov accounts that were already on here have been taken over. Look at this juxtaposition:
October 17, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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BY THE WAY

If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.

There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.

Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."

TURN IT OFF.
October 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Stay safe out there yall!

I'm carrying:

- tourniquet (I'm stop the bleed trained)
- narcan x2
- basic first aid kit
- 2L bottled water
- umbrella
- goggles
- N95 (imma try for a P100 at the shops tomorrow)
- earplugs

I'm not carrying:

- my cell phone
tbh all this talk from republican pols about the opposition being "america hating hamas supporters" really has me nervous they're trying to instigate stochastic terror at these protests and also legitimize violently repressing them and even potentially killing protesters egged into resisting
October 17, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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If you can't attend but want to support, please donate to *local grassroots orgs*:

- street medics
- bail funds
- migrant support orgs
- queer support orgs
- mutual aid groups

Trust, the brand name national orgs and politicians will get plenty. Your $ goes farther if it stays in your community.
October 17, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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HOLY FUCKING SHIT

GUYS

GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC

GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU

OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
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October 17, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Periodic reminder that Andrew Cuomo is in Epstein's Little Black Book alongside his then-wife. Search "Cuomo" here to confirm: epsteinsblackbook.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Ok, so this is a very big deal. Let’s thread it.
New York health officials have confirmed the first locally transmitted case of the chikungunya virus which causes high fever, joint pain and fatigue.

It’s usually a tropical virus, but there are now infected mosquitoes spreading in New York. (NYT)
October 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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I hope that a hundred years from now people talk about me as some kind of racist asshole. I don't want to be judged by the standards of my time. I want to be judged by a better world and found wanting, because that will require that better world.
October 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM