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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins

@wittywebhandle.bsky.social

November 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM

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Tom!

@peekaytom.bsky.social

It's important to not fight on an empty stomach. A distracted mind can lose the battle. You can easily store some banana bread in a pocket, to consume later. I earnestly hope you'll be careful of that, Mashymre.

May 7, 2025 at 7:16 AM

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Snooby

@snooby.bsky.social

Every year to commemorate American Thanksgiving I lure the dumbest meanest guy in town deep into the woods and leave him there. Done it nine times, none of em have made it back. One year I saw a will carved into a tree. Started with "To whoom it may concern". Morons

November 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM

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Jack Frost

@jinjo.bsky.social

Nature is literally full of smelly excrement and terrifying creatures that will hunt you down and eat you. And yet it is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

November 27, 2025 at 3:52 AM

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@bluebirdenthusiast.bsky.social

please enjoy this "I'm a normal centrist dem and i don't hate trans women" freudian slip

November 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM

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@bluebirdenthusiast.bsky.social

well. enough of that

November 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM

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FlamingSackOfPizza

@flamingsackofpizza.bsky.social

an edited Half-Life screenshot that reads "idk who needs to hear this, but it's time to put the turkey into the anti-mass spectrometer"

November 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM

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Puff the Magic Hater

@mskellymhayes.bsky.social

People are struggling. I want us to think about how we're going to help each other hang in there this winter. How are you going to support your friends, co-strugglers, and community as they push through this moment? How can you help people muddle through, materially and/or emotionally?

November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM

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Puff the Magic Hater

@mskellymhayes.bsky.social

If your friends and co-strugglers are feeling worn down, Read This When Things Fall Apart might make a good holiday gift. ❤️

Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis

Letters to Activists in Crisis

bookshop.org

November 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM

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Erin Fogg says Free Link

@criminalerin.bsky.social

Nothing but respect for MY father of communism as understood by the average FBI agent

An early photoshop made deep fake of Paris Hilton in a white tank top with huge black block letters reading STOP BEING POOR on it holding her arms triumphantly in the air, made even faker by the addition of Karl Marx's face on her face

July 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM

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Erin Fogg says Free Link

@criminalerin.bsky.social

FBI: Do u know Karl Marx

Mahmood Mamdani: Haven’t met him

FBI: No, he's dead

Mamdani: Wow, what happened?

FBI: No, no, he died long ago

Mamdani: Why are you asking me?

FBI: He wrote that poor people should not be poor

Mamdani: Sounds wonderful

readingfanon.blogspot.com/2013/07/in-c...

BS: Was there a feeling of exile?

MM: It wasn’t exile. I barely had a sense of the world, even though, when I was a high school student, my father used to take me to political rallies. But I didn’t really have any sense of it. I thought the British had no business being there, but that was it, no more than that. I didn’t have a sense of outrage. I didn’t have a sense of great injustice. I did have [a sense] of the color bar, yes, because I knew there was a white area and you couldn’t go there – or if you went to see your scout master, who was British, you had to stand outside…all those things.

But it’s really here I got a sense of it, because a friend of mine took me to a SNCC [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] meeting, six or seven months after I was here. At the end of the meeting they announced that buses were going to Montgomery, Alabaman, to demonstrate. I went there, got beaten up, thrown in jail…

MM: One night. They let you make one phone call, and I called the Ugandan Ambassador in Washington, DC, talked to him, and he said, “What are you doing interfering in the affairs of a foreign country?” I said, “What? We just got our independence! This is the same struggle. Have you forgotten?” Anyway, he got me out. Two or three weeks later, I was in my room. There was a knock at the door. Two gentlemen in trench coats and hats said, “FBI.” I thought, “Wow, just like on television.” They sat down. They were there to find out why I had gone – because this turned out to be big – it is after Montgomery that King organized his march on Selma. They wanted to know who had influenced me. After one hour of probing, the guy said, “Do you like Marx?”

I said, “I haven’t met him.”

Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.”

“Wow, what happened?”

“No, no, he died long ago.”

I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?”

“No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.”

I said, “Sounds amazing.”

I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx.

I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx.

BS: The FBI.

MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But, basically, it is the US – the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement – which gave me a new take on my own experience, and on the Asian experience in east Africa. It gave me a way of rethinking my own experience of growing up in east Africa and growing up in an Africa with a lens crafted by the civil rights movement.

July 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM

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Miriam Grace

@miriamgrace.bsky.social

Hello network. This is real shit. I’m looking for transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming front and back end web designers for a project to help trans people get housing in NJ. This is a paid opportunity.

Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM

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@bluebirdenthusiast.bsky.social

looking for new skincare. ask the tiktok influencer if it's creepy or wet. she doesn't understand. pull out illustrated diagram of what is creepy and what is wet. she laughs and says "it's Korean skincare ma'am". buy the product line.
it's wet

November 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM

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zaratustra

@zaratustra.bsky.social

"an unholy combination of monty hall and minesweeper" by @spindleyq.information-superhighway.net www.information-superhighway.net/montsweeper/

Montsweeper: Monty Hall IS The Problem Now

www.information-superhighway.net

November 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM

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@bluebirdenthusiast.bsky.social

fearmongering over trans people in sports is the biggest crybaby sore loser bullshit in the world and I think the sooner we lean into that instead of pretending like it's a serious problem the better off we'll be

November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM

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@bluebirdenthusiast.bsky.social

oh??

a picture of a popcorn machine we just bought called dash hot air popcorn maker with a suspiciously goatse image in the top right (a red circle around a bowl of popcorn with a hand reach in and grabbing a piece from both sides)

November 25, 2025 at 4:57 AM

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Santa Ragione

@santaragione.com

Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...

November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM

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We're just normal men

@wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social

We’re just normal men

November 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM

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cop city is everywhere, fight back ☂️

@cop-watcher.bsky.social

Is there interest in ordering another round of these stickers? 👀

a sticker on a utility pole with a few raindrops on it. A city skyline out of focus and a park in the background.

the sticker has a white background with a black outline that’s reminiscent of a street sign. in highway gothic font it say:
PART OF BEING NICE
IS BEING MEAN TO FASCISTS

in the center is a black power fist icon moving up and to the left. a “POW” cloud sits around it with yellow in the middle and a red outline to show some action.

November 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM

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Rachel Schwartz

@raschwartz.bsky.social

Good news—Dr. Abedini has been released!!! Thanks to everyone who shared and mobilized 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Rachel Schwartz @raschwartz.bsky.social · 2d

My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...

OU College of International Studies professor reportedly arrested by ICE

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly arrested an OU professor at Will Rogers International Airport Saturday.

www.oudaily.com

November 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM

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@bluebirdenthusiast.bsky.social

oh??

November 25, 2025 at 4:57 AM

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Marie Cerda

@primalux.thedeadbird.club

jfc. It was determined by a US judge that she could not be deported to Sierra Leone due to danger she would face in the country she fled. So they deported her to Ghana, a country she had never been to, and Ghana deported her to Sierra Leone.

This country is fucking sick. Deeply deeply fucking sick

Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana

Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.

www.nbcwashington.com

November 25, 2025 at 3:18 AM

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Rep. Jacob Rosecrants

@jacobrosecrants.bsky.social

I’m aware of this awful situation, shared by my constituent Dr. Landis. Nobody seems to know where Dr. Abedini is being held, tho he has contacted family. Rep. Deck reached out to Rep. Cole & Sen. Lankford’s office is looped in. Here to be a squeaky wheel & help however I can.