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SOVKA ✶

@monstersovka.bsky.social

TRANS RIGHTS 🏳️‍⚧️

March 31, 2025 at 1:34 PM

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Kemi Stanton, First of her Name 💫

@saiyanserenityv.bsky.social

This post I came across on Tumblr is SO GOOD, not only am I making these all my rules to live by in 2025 but I think everybody should strive to follow them too!

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25 ways to be a little more punk in 2025.

1. Cut fast fashion - buy used, learn to mend and/or make your own clothes, buy fewer clothes less often so you can save up for ethically made quality.

2. Cancel subscriptions relearn how to pirate media, spend $10/month buying a digital album from a small artist instead of on Spotify, stream on free services since the paid ones make you watch ads anyway.

3. Green your community - there's lots of ways to do this, like seedbombing or joining a community garden or organizing neighborhood trash pickups.

4. Be kind stop to give directions, check on stopped cars, smile at kids, let people cut you in line, offer to get stuff off the high shelf, hold the door, ask people if they're okay.

5. Intervene - learn bystander intervention techniques and be prepared to use them, even if it feels awkward.

6. Get closer to your food - grow it yourself, can and preserve it, buy from a farmstand, learn where it's from, go fishing, make it from scratch, learn a new ingredient.

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7. Use opensource software - try LibreOffice, try Reaper, learn Linux, use a free Photoshop clone. The next time an app tries to force you to pay, look to see if there's an opensource alternative.

8. Make less trash - start a compost, be mindful of packaging, find another use for that plastic, make it a challenge for yourself!

9. Get involved in local politics - show up at meetings for city council, the zoning commission, the park district, school boards; fight the NIMBYs that always show up and force them to focus on the things impacting the most vulnerable folks in your community.

10. DIY > fashion - shake off the obsession with pristine presentation that you've been taught! Cut your own hair, use homemade cosmetics, exchange mani/pedis with friends, make your own jewelry, duct tape those broken headphones!

11. Ditch Google - Chromium browsers (which is almost all of them) are now bloated spyware, and Google search sucks now, so why not finally make the jump to Firefox and another search like DuckDuckGo? Or put the Wikipedia app on your phone and look things up there?

12. Forage learn about local edible plants and how to safely and sustainably harvest them or go find fruit trees and such accessible to the public.

13. Volunteer - every week tutoring at the library or once a month at the humane society or twice a year serving food at the soup kitchen, you can find something that matches your availability.

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14. Help your neighbors - which means you have to meet them first and find out how you can help (including your unhoused neighbors), like elderly or disabled folks that might need help with yardwork or who that escape artist dog belongs to or whether the police have been hassling people sleeping rough.

15. Fix stuff - the next time something breaks (a small appliance, an electronic, a piece of furniture, etc.), see if you can figure out what's wrong with it, if there are tutorials on fixing it, or if you can order a replacement part from the manufacturer instead of trashing the whole thing.

16. Mix up your transit - find out what's walkable, try biking instead of driving, try public transit and complain to the city if it sucks, take a train instead of a plane, start a carpool at work.

17. Engage in the arts go see a local play, check out an art gallery or a small museum, buy art from the farmer's market.

18. Go to the library - to check out a book or a movie or a CD, to use the computers or the printer, to find out if they have other weird rentals like a seed library or luggage, to use meeting space, to file your taxes, to take a class, to ask questions.

19. Listen local - see what's happening at local music venues or other events where local musicians will be performing, stop for buskers, find a favorite artist, and support them.

20. Buy local - it's less convenient than online shopping or going to a big box store that sells everything, but try buying what you can from small local shops in your area.

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21. Become unmarketable - there are a lot of ways you can disrupt your online marketing surveillance, including buying less, using decoy emails, deleting or removing permissions from apps that spy on you, checking your privacy settings, not clicking advertising links, and...

22. Use cash - go to the bank and take out cash instead of using your credit card or e-payment for everything! It's better on small businesses and it's untraceable.

23. Give what you can as capitalism churns on, normal shmucks have less and less, so think about what you can give (time, money, skills, space, stuff) and how it will make the most impact.

24. Talk about wages - with your coworkers, with your friends, while unionizing! Stop thinking about wages as a measure of your worth and talk about whether or not the bosses are paying fairly for the labor they receive.

25. Think about wealthflow - there are a thousand little mechanisms that corporations and billionaires use to capture wealth from the lower class: fees for transactions, interest, vendor platforms, subscriptions, and more. Start thinking about where your money goes, how and where it's getting captured and removed from our class, and where you have the ability to cut off the flow and pass cash directly to your fellow working class people.

February 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM

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SPiNDLE

@aidenr0.bsky.social

"ai makes art accessible" is an argument i hate to my fucking bones. Art is EASILY accessible, I'd argue it's the cheapest most accessible hobby because all you need is a pen and paper.

"yeah but not everyone has skills" no everyone has the skill, you just need to put in the work

1/7 🧵

March 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM

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Nintendo of America [Unofficial]

@nintendousa.bsky.social

After over ten years, #TomodachiLife is back! Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is coming to Nintendo Switch in 2026. #NintendoDirect

March 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM

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Every SpongeBob Frame In Order

@esfio.bsky.social

Season 2 Episode 7 - Frame 2139 out of 2694

March 23, 2025 at 5:33 AM

Trainerbob

@trainerbob.bsky.social

Silent hill 2 soundtrack be hitting different in abandoned places or atmospheric places

March 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM

Trainerbob

@trainerbob.bsky.social

Look what mangas and book I got :D

I was going to get dandadan but my parents wouldn't allow me though :[ don't worry I will eventually get the book one day

March 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM

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GrayWalf

@graywalf.bsky.social

Neck Fluff

March 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM

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Tracker_TD

@tracker-td.bsky.social

what the actual fuck the Sonic modding shennanigans stream just revealed a native PC port of Sonic Unleashed

It's out NOW

github.com/hedge-dev/Un...

March 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM

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Mom

@milph.mom

It might hurt my bottom line, but I’m probably going to stop posting art to Twitter entirely and I suggest you do too.

Not only is the site actively putting a “Okay, now remix this” button below art (and elevating them above the OP with a QRT) and it’s false flagging original art as made by AI.

February 13, 2025 at 1:11 AM

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lurian

@lurian.bsky.social

February 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM

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TheNCSmaster

@thencsmaster.bsky.social

Kendrick got the Grammys and the Super Bowl screaming “A MINOOOOORRRR”

Drake gotta go into hiding man

February 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM

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Crispy Toast

@crispytoastyt.newgrounds.com

“Can I have one little piece of that popcorn?” 🥹

Every SpongeBob Frame In Order @esfio.bsky.social · Feb 9

Season 2 Episode 3 - Frame 1857 out of 2790

February 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM

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Little aliens forever

@lilalienz4ever.bsky.social

"WAT!!" flug exclaims, eyes white and one floating off their head.. "how are you doing that with your eye" week asks, very worried

February 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM

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Vertigo 🩵🐉

@vertigoishere.bsky.social

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Bluesky @bsky.app · Feb 6

happy first birthday to Bluesky, and what a year it's been!

with every day, the need for an open network that puts people first becomes increasingly clear. we're glad to be building this with you. after all, the heart of a social network is the people.

Popular meme format, grandma labeled with "bluesky's public launch was one year ago today." Younger person helping her labeled with "sure grandma let's get you to bed."

February 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM

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GENC

@genc.newgrounds.com

I love this silly vintage matchbook cat

February 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM

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Chise

@sailorrooscout.bsky.social

HEADLINE: CDC posts, then deletes, data on bird flu spread between cats and people. The data which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households.

It is evident the CDC is being muzzled SO let’s talk about what YOU can do to PROTECT yourself AND your pets. 🧪🧵 ⬇️

February 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM