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Lekai
@lekaikinsman.bsky.social
No Peace Without Equity For All.
Union Strong. Blue Collar.
Intersex. Genderfluid.
Immigrant. Parent.
My entire community could burn down (and has in the past) and people will still fight over fire mitigation and how even the most minor thing, a 5-foot defensible space by your foundation with no combustibles, is anti-individualism and therefore woke. 🤦
July 14, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Pronunciation guide for @cnn.com and anyone else reporting on today’s horror in Idaho:

Coeur d’Alene: core-da-LANE

Spokane: spo-CAN
June 30, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Being at work while the world is falling apart around us, while being able to do nothing because rent is due and you are exhausted, is the millennial way at this point. Ug. 😑
June 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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A good rule of thumb is what do they gain by my believing them, what do they lose by my doubting them.
And what do I lose by believing them and what do I gain by doubting them.
Be skeptical about those who seek power over you, in all things.
June 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
My first girlfriend was Iranian. My first love. My first kiss.

That was decades ago. I know she now lives happily in England, and that's about it, but I can't help thinking about her family, who loved me so dearly, still in Iran.

While I now live in a country that is bombing them.

I hate this.
June 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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right now bombing Iran is incredibly unpopular. i suspect the admin is betting this will inspire retaliatory terrorist attacks against Americans that will help to manufacture consent for further escalations.
June 22, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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“The demonstration became violent” sure is a roundabout way to say that the cops arrived.
June 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"Meet me in the middle," they say, I step forward, but they step back and say "Why aren't you meeting me in the middle?"
June 15, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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The people angry about Mexican flags being waved are the same people who drape their trucks in Confederate flags
June 12, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Tonight Chief Hall of @spokanepd.bsky.social said the cops under his command only used smoke and pepper balls tonight, not tear gas.

My friend Barry characterizes this cloud as smoke, but a couple other friends at the game said they felt like they and their kids had been tear gassed.
Smoke bombs drift over the field during the Velocity match. Maybe next time Spokane PD can figure out which way the wind is blowing before letting off some of these.
June 12, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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June 11, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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liberals on bluesky: why is no one protesting taco trumpf? i will skeet harder until democracy is free

::people in LA fight back against fascism::

liberals on bluesky: YOU FOOLS! YOU EASY MARKS! YOU BUFFOONS! By resisting fascism you are going to make the fascists do more fascism! I am very smart!
June 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
My work just changed to requiring a #RealID to apply.

As an immigrant, I hate it, since its expiration date is tied to the expiration of my other documents.

Aka so yet another piece crap that I need to pay for at the same time that I'm doing another expensive renewal.

*Even if it isn't expired.*
May 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
A cleaner at work had to be rushed to the hospital.

We are worried that something got lost in translation about cleaning up one of the chemicals in the shop.

If she mopped it up, it creates a very dangerous acid vapor.

The company really needs to translate all the training material into Spanish.
May 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I VASTLY DISLIKE Spotify's choice to remove the New Episodes option. Wtf.
May 24, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Say it with your chest.
May 19, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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When they accidentally tell the truth... (Pt. 2)

(also try to avoid swimming in sewage)
May 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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I know lawyering up and shutting up is scary. Believe me. I do.

But you CANNOT talk your way out of an arrest or detention.

You CAN talk your way into charges, arrest, or detention.

And you'd be amazed how often the response to lawyering up is just letting you go.
May 14, 2025 at 3:59 AM
A #podcast that I like as background while I work (Serial Killers from Parcast) recently replaced their host.

For the life of me, I can't tell if the new person is:

A. a real person with a unique speech cadence

B. AI generated

Her name is Janice Morgan & I can't find any info on her?
May 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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May 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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What: 👊Smash the 💰Oligarchy march
When: May 24th @1pm
Where: Spokane, WA-The Big Red Wagon
May 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The last 30 minutes of the shift is the longessssst. Ug. Especially when everything is done early, even the little time wasting tasks.
May 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I can't even with this new Sleep Token album.

Even in Arcadia is so good.

I've listened to it since midnight just on loop at work all the way to just getting home now.

#SleepToken
May 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Amazing. UHC shareholders are suing because after the CEO shooting, the company was “no longer willing” to use “aggressive, anti-consumer tactics” to generate the profits they were promised.

A gift from the content gods.
May 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people.

Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.
May 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM