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Chaos Monkey

@monkeyscat.bsky.social

"If you're smart and a fascist, you're not honest.

If you're honest and a fascist, you're not smart.

If you're smart and honest, you're not a fascist."

-Italian WW2 proverb

November 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM

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Lisa Cumming

@lisacumin.bsky.social

Concise conflict tip to reflect on from Naomi Alderman.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Screenshot from print paper of following paragraph, "Here’s a rule I have developed for myself: never talk about a culture-war topic with anyone who only wants to talk to you about that topic. These conversations can only be helpful if they happen as part of a relationship. If you’re going in cold on a very hard topic, you will not be able to experience each other as people, only as opinions or symbols."

November 17, 2025 at 9:24 AM

Myshele Haywood

@myshele.bsky.social

And again, dress up warm and bring your vuvuzelas... Aberdeen welcomes refugees, not racism! Stand up to racist bullies with music, colourful banners and messages of hope. All welcome. Sunday 16 November, 3pm, 130 Don Street, Old Aberdeen (Don Street House), AB24 1UY.

Image of abstract purple people with arms raised on a white background and text reading, Aberdeen welcomes refugees, not racism! Stand up to racist bullies with music, colourful banners and messages of hope. All welcome. Sunday 16 November, 3pm, 130 Don Street, Old Aberdeen (Don Street House), AB24 1UY. Logos of Aberdeen CND, SPSC, ATUC, anti-fascist alliance, stand up to racism and Aberdeen Social Centre.

November 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM

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sarah jeong

@sarahjeong.bsky.social

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

www.apmreports.org

November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM

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wytchhazel.bsky.social

@wytchhazel.bsky.social

November 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM

Myshele Haywood

@myshele.bsky.social

Bring your vuvuzelas!

Aberdeen welcomes refugees, not racism! Stand up to racist bullies with music, colourful banners and messages of hope. All welcome. Saturday 25 October, 4pm, Patio Hotel, 213 Links Road, AB24 5EF (also called Doubletree Hotel, off Beach Blvd).

White background with purple abstract human shapes in welcoming poses, with the headline Aberdeen welcomes refugees, not racism! Further text: Stand up to racist bullies with music, colourful banners and messages of hope. All welcome. Saturday 25 October, 4pm, Patio Hotel, 213 Links Road, AB24 5EF (also called Doubletree Hotel, off Beach Blvd). Logos for CND, SPSC, Aberdeen Anti-Fascist Alliance, Aberdeen Trade Union Council, Stand Up To Racism and Aberdeen Social Centre.

October 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM

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Mike Galsworthy

@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social

🇺🇸 🔥 That. Was. Impressive.

We are watching America reassert itself and its values from the grassroots up. The world saw you and we have huge hope invested in you.

October 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM

Myshele Haywood

@myshele.bsky.social

Another weekend, another counter-protest... Westhill welcomes refugees, not racism! Stand up to racist bullies with music, colourful banners and messages of hope. All welcome. Sunday 5 October, 2pm, Hampton Hotel, Straik Road, Westhill AB32 6TL.

White background with purple abstract human shapes in welcoming poses, with the headline Westhill welcomes refugees, not racism! Further text: Stand up to racist bullies with music, colourful banners and messages of hope. All welcome. Sunday 5 October, 2pm, Hampton Hotel, Straik Road, Westhill AB32 6TL. Logos for CND, SPSC, Aberdeen Anti-Fascist Alliance, Aberdeen Trade Union Council, Stand Up To Racism and Aberdeen Social Centre.

October 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM

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Nana Visitor

@nanavisitor.bsky.social

Looking forward to being a part of this

Amy Imhoff @amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · Oct 2

Listen to this timely discussion and network with these amazing ladies - I am honored to be in their presence!

We need to build an inclusive Roddenberry future for everyone & that starts RIGHT NOW.

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Join us on October 7 at 12 pm ET for Women in Space: Claiming Power and Creating Equity — a World Space Week Spotlight on the groundbreaking UNOOSA Gender Study . Moderated by Sabrina Cartan (Roddenbe...

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October 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM

Myshele Haywood

@myshele.bsky.social

Aberdeen welcomes refugees, not racism! Another anti-immigrant 'protest' this weekend, so come along to the counter-protest: stand up to racist bullies with music, colourful banners + messages of hope. All welcome. Sunday 28 Sept, 6pm, Sure Hotel, Summerhill Court (off Lang Stracht), AB15 6TW.

White background with purple image of abstract people, different ages and genders,with text above: Aberdeen welcomes refugees, not racism! And beside and below the people: Stand up to racist bullies with music, colourful banners and messages of hope. All welcome. Sunday 28 September, 6pm, Sure Hotel, Summerhill Court (off Lang Stracht), AB15 6TW. At the bottom, logos of CND, SPSC, Aberdeen Anti-Fascist Alliance, Aberdeen Trade Union Council, Stand Up To Racism, and Aberdeen Social Centre.

September 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards

@vickiye.bsky.social

We want the media and politicians to recognise there's a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name

notinourname.org.uk

September 20, 2025 at 8:27 AM

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thiiird person

@thiiirdperson.com

i'm noticing that no one has anything negative to say about Robert Redford, who lived his life without saying a bunch of awful things about people for views and clicks. maybe the way to avoid negativity after you die is to not act like an asshole for views and clicks while you're alive

September 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM

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Jason K Pargin, author

@jasonkpargin.bsky.social

I am begging you to understand how madness spreads in a society. It's not just blind panic among the ignorant that there's a monster coming. It's smart-sounding people insisting you are a bad person unless you, also, believe in the monster and join the panic.

September 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM

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Claire Willett

@clairewillett.bsky.social

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things.

I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father.

Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking.

She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.

I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person.
My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right".

None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing,

enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got.
Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived.

Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.

September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM

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It's ME(Jaime)

@exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social

Here is your morning's dose of Hope for Humanity

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · Sep 3

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I started school in Newcastle in Year 5 without knowing a word of English. I was nine years old and had arrived as a refugee from Bosnia just a couple of months earlier.
I was one of those strangers our politicians often speak about.
I missed my grandparents and friends. I was having awful nightmares, and I would wake up screaming every single night. I hated going to school. I would sit in my chair, look out of the window, and spend my day daydreaming about ways to run back to Bosnia. I didn't want to be here.
After a couple of weeks at school, my teacher, Miss Webster, and my classmates did something special to help me settle, something that made me feel less of a stranger. That was the first day I went home with a smile on my face.
I have shared this story before, but as tomorrow is start of the new school year, I thought I would share it again.
**

Miss Webster was amazing, but I couldn't understand a word she was saying. She had this ritual where, at the end of each day, we would all sit on the floor around her, she would play the guitar, and we would all sing a song together.
I couldn't understand what they were singing, but I could see she would sing one part of the song, then she would say someone's name or point to them. The next part of the song would be sung with that person's name in it, and they would get to go home first.
My classmates loved this, but I hated it. It annoyed me because I couldn't understand what they were singing, but if I am honest, l hated it mainly because of how happy they all were. I definitely wasn't happy. I cried myself to sleep nearly every night.
I eventually started having separate English lessons, which I enjoyed more because it took me out of the classroom. It was always daunting coming to school because I felt everyone was looking at me or speaking about me. For months, my dad would stand with me outside the school gates in the morning until it was time to go in.

One day I came back into the classroom from my English lesson. We sat down, and everyone was extra-excited, looking at me more than usual for some reason. Of course, I thought it was because I was a refugee, because I couldn't speak English, or because they couldn't pronounce my name. I was bracing myself for another afternoon of my classmates encouraging me to sing. This was probably the closest I came to running out.
So we were all sitting on the floor around Miss Webster. She was holding her guitar, ready to sing. I remember the sun shining through the tall, narrow windows as I slowly drifted into a daydream of being back in Bosnia. She began playing the guitar, my classmates joined in, but this time, everything was different. I froze. I understood what they were signing. Not because I had miraculously learned English in one afternoon, but because they were singing in Bosnian for me. I looked around in shock, and they were all smiling at me, and for a moment I thought I was daydreaming.

While I was having separate English lessons, Miss Webster had taught our entire class to sing this song for me in Bosnian. They sang it terribly, but it was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. I skipped home that day with a huge smile on my face. For the first time, I looked forward to going back to school the next day.
I have often imagined Miss Webster and my classmates rehearsing, struggling with the strange Bosnian words and laughing at themselves. For me, that effort was the ultimate recognition, an act of peace that felt like the opposite of everything I had known during the war. It was special.
I do not know if they realised it then, but that moment helped to give me back my dignity, my belonging, and, for the first time in a long time, I didn't feel like I was just a refugee or an outsider. I was home.

September 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM

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Dex Anderson

@dexanderson.com

YES YES YES.

The centrist removes their own agency from the equation. Because they define themselves by "meeting people where they're supposedly at," they do not realize that *they have the power to shape that opinion*. That their taking a moral stand can actually change things!!

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Sep 4

This absolute banger

September 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM

Myshele Haywood

@myshele.bsky.social

Aberdeen welcomes refugees, not racism! Saturday 6 September, 2pm, Marischal College. Peaceful community event with food, music, colourful banners and messages of hope for refugees. All welcome.

Three colourful cartoon people smiling with their hands raised, in front of a cartoon image of the entrance to Marischal College, a stone archway. Text in pink: Aberdeen welcomes refugees, not racism! Saturday 6 September, 2pm, Marischal College. Peaceful community event with food, music, colourful banners and messages of hope for refugees. All welcome. Logos of Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Aberdeen Anti-Fascist Alliance, Aberdeen Trades Union Council and Aberdeen Social Centre.

September 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM

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Sarah has a suggestion

@goatsarah.org

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

August 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM

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Ashley C. Ford

@smashfizzle.bsky.social

Someday we will deeply interrogate the weaponized expectation of gratitude for authority figures who believe you owe them for not killing you YET. It’s like the person holding a blade to your throat being annoyed that you’re complaining about bleeding instead of thanking them for not cutting deeper.

The Independent @the-independent.com · Aug 29

Vance goes after NYC mayoral hopeful Mamdani: ‘He should show more gratitude to the United States’

Vance goes after NYC mayor hopeful Mamdani for not showing ‘gratitude’ to the US

www.independent.co.uk

August 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM

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David Graeber Institute

@davidgraeberinst.bsky.social

It is good to remember this every time when logging into Twitter.

August 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM

Myshele Haywood

@myshele.bsky.social

Aberdeen welcomes refugees, not racism! Community groups & local residents are gathering on Saturday 30 August, from 2pm, for a peaceful event outside Patio Hotel, 213 Links Rd, Aberdeen, AB24 5EF. There will be food, music, colourful banners and messages of hope for the refugees living there.

Aberdeen welcomes refugees, not racism! Saturday 30 August, 2:00pm, Patio Hotel, 213 Links Rd, Aberdeen, AB24 5EF (also called Doubletree, off Beach Blvd). Peaceful community event with food, music, colourful banners and messages of hope for refugees. All welcome. With cartoon image of three people smiling and waving, and logos of North East Scotland Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Aberdeen Anti-Fascist Alliance, Aberdeen Trades Union Council and Aberdeen Social Centre.

August 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM

Myshele Haywood

@myshele.bsky.social

Westhill welcomes refugees, not racism! Community groups & local residents are gathering on Saturday 23 August, 5-7pm, for a peaceful event outside the Hampton Hotel on Straik Rd, Westhill. There will be food, music, colourful banners and messages of hope for the refugees living there. (1/6)

Westhill welcomes refugees, not racism! Saturday 23 August, 5-7pm, Hampton Hotel, Straik Rd, Westhill, AB32 6TL. Peaceful community event with food, music, colourful banners and messages of hope for refugees. All welcome. With cartoon image of three people smiling and waving, and logos of Disabled People Against Cuts, Aberdeen Trades Union Council and Aberdeen Social Centre.

August 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM

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Quite Interesting

@qi.com

A 7-year-study of 70,000 elderly people from 19 towns in Japan has found that the more public library books there are in a town, the fewer residents need long-term nursing care.

July 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM

Myshele Haywood

@myshele.bsky.social

Incredibly powerful work from a dear friend. Written in a UK context, but equally relevant in the US now. Please watch to the end.

Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · Jun 24

My plea to everyone being legislated out of existence by the government. Don't let them win.

Solidarity with all marginalised people the government kills up front.

Thanks to @iamloudpro.bsky.social for rushing the video so it could come out now, for always being supportive and for a platform.

Poem: What To Do When Your Government Is Trying To Kill You - Fiona Robertson

YouTube video by Fiona Robertson

youtu.be

June 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM

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Cassie aka Lamia 🔜 PaxU

@intersectionscch.bsky.social

I'ma tell you all what I tell my clients.

You feel bad because it is bad. You are unmotivated to go to work because the world is on fire & the government is sending people to kidnap children and adults & maiming people who try to stop them.
You are having a normal reaction to obscene circumstances.

June 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM

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