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Sola Balisane
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It's okay, we're professionals.

Fully grown. 3D sculpt and print enthusiast. The rest at discretion.

Yes the net.goth one.
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I was suspended right before the Epstein emails were released. If the BlueSky search engine works, you will find a wealth of posts from me about the people in those emails, who I wrote about in my books HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT and THEY KNEW. This is the work I feared would be erased on Twitter.
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Also if we're talking about Bunnicula, go read this lovely
@sarahgailey.bsky.social essay about its origins that might make you cry
October 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Hey do you use Gmail? Yea most of us do. Turn off these settings if you don't want google scraping ALL of your emails and attachments to train their ai.

Go to All settings, and turn off Smart features
Reload and go back in to Manage workplace smart feature settings
Turn all these off too.
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials.

“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Don’t cross the line!
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.

Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.

Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
November 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I know we say "Bluesky users are unfamiliar with jokes," but come the fuck on. It was a Johnny Cash article. Call is coming from inside the house.
The account owner of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was suspended for 72 hours for expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article. The post, made 11/10, stated: "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die." 1/2
November 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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TOMORROW

I'm joining the folks at @move2amend.bsky.social to talk about people's movements for constitutional change as a necessary part of building a real democracy

You should join too!

Held virtually at Noon PT / 1pm MT / 2pm CT / 3pm ET

www.movetoamend.org/our_right_an...
Our Right and Duty to Create an Equitable Democracy & Constitution
www.movetoamend.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Without downloading new pictures, describe your gender.
November 13, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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New art reference sneak peek!
Jess (they/them) is back at it again again Monday! 💛⚙
November 13, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Reminder that donations to my personal fundraiser to support Scarleteen count DOUBLE up to the first $1,000! I'd love to hit $800 tonight, so come at me, big spenders.

www.classy.org/fundraiser/6...
Scarleteen is people-powered, NOT AI! We’re raising $40,000 for staff and volunteer health care and today, we’d like to celebrate some amazing volunteers who make inclusive, joyful sex, health, and relationships education possible. www.classy.org/campaign/scarl...
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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every single one of these emails is someone I already hate messaging a notorious pedophile to say "Thanks for the great time! I had fun doing pedophile stuff with you. P.S. Trump was there with us the whole time"
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
November 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Get outside into a dark place if you can tonight - no guarantees, but a possible brilliant display of the northern lights.
We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.

Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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390) Buildabot. Create your own small robot using these parts and the image editing software of your choice! #SmallRobotsRemastered
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This is why I haven't read for anyone else in over a decade: my cards are mean as fuck. I know perfectly well to expect it by now, and yet am always left like D:

I was thinking about: what it would be like to be part of a family sometime in the future.
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Amazing commission I got to do for @vuullets.bsky.social, thank you so much <3
#Destiny2 #Destiny2art
November 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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I’ve seen this shared several times with the header and footer not visible, so you can’t see the artists’s name.

Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Day 11: Tender

Stolen moments within the snowy cloak of the Western Highlands. Damn cold but nothing Ser Aymeric can’t fix.

#RoevemberXIV | #RoevemberXIV2025 | #wolmeric
November 12, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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No words. I’m a block from home.
November 12, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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It's a short thread @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social with this week's mix of imagery and wearable art. Follow us there for daily threads like this, featuring incredible Indigenous fine silverwork, imagery, and other art, educational information, and cool creative backstories.
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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WOOOOOWWWWWW

I have not stopped saying that for three hours.
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Evidence of ancient tree-climbing 'drop crocs' found in Australia. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Evidence of ancient tree-climbing 'drop crocs' found in Australia
Scientists say the crocodiles hunted like leopards by climbing trees and killing prey below.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Haiou, the cats my fam's helping out need help right now with food

Any amount- 5,10, 20 etc. of spare you can share within your convenience in this timing is appreciated 🙇‍♀️! Pieces of help add up to what we need

ko-fi.com/catterbox

Ordering Merch helps! 👇
November 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM