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According to the fundraiser, OJ has helped his owner “not lose her hope or her spark” during incarceration.
“Anything is greatly appreciated.”
“Anything is greatly appreciated.”
Look, we really needed this one today:
🐈 💵 Thanks to some incarcerated women in Texas, a GoFundMe benefitting a senior cat named Orange Julius has raised more than $6,000 so he can be treated for a kidney infection.
thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/08/t...
🐈 💵 Thanks to some incarcerated women in Texas, a GoFundMe benefitting a senior cat named Orange Julius has raised more than $6,000 so he can be treated for a kidney infection.
thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/08/t...
Incarcerated Texas Women Are Crowdfunding a Vet Visit for a Beloved Cat Named Orange Julius
OJ has helped his owner “not lose her hope or her spark” during incarceration.
thebarbedwire.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:05 PM
According to the fundraiser, OJ has helped his owner “not lose her hope or her spark” during incarceration.
“Anything is greatly appreciated.”
“Anything is greatly appreciated.”
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I still use a 2G flip phone for a wide variety of reasons, so this is easier for me to put into action.
But I really think people need to start integrating this into their daily lives and mental habits: In today's USA, your smartphone puts you on a repressive state's map.
But I really think people need to start integrating this into their daily lives and mental habits: In today's USA, your smartphone puts you on a repressive state's map.
New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co
January 8, 2026 at 3:49 PM
I still use a 2G flip phone for a wide variety of reasons, so this is easier for me to put into action.
But I really think people need to start integrating this into their daily lives and mental habits: In today's USA, your smartphone puts you on a repressive state's map.
But I really think people need to start integrating this into their daily lives and mental habits: In today's USA, your smartphone puts you on a repressive state's map.
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they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.
January 7, 2026 at 6:08 PM
they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.
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We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions
January 3, 2026 at 3:36 PM
We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions
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In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
January 1, 2026 at 10:30 PM
In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
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Nine Delights 2026
January 1, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Nine Delights 2026
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USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
December 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
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Mozilla approved the Times New Roman to accessible fonts plugin! You can find it here for Firefox and it'll update automatically when, and if, anything more is requested.
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ReCalibri – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Download ReCalibri for Firefox. Replace Times New Roman with readable fonts. Six options including Atkinson Hyperlegible, Lexend, and OpenDyslexic for people with dyslexia, low vision, and reading dif...
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December 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Mozilla approved the Times New Roman to accessible fonts plugin! You can find it here for Firefox and it'll update automatically when, and if, anything more is requested.
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this is the first time all of my dough cuts have worked!!!!
December 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
this is the first time all of my dough cuts have worked!!!!
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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The magic words are "I was working in the yard and something jabbed me in the thick bit of my thumb, it healed right up but someone said I should get a Tdap booster just in case" (outside, puncture wound, healed over fast are the three major risk factors for tetanus)
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The magic words are "I was working in the yard and something jabbed me in the thick bit of my thumb, it healed right up but someone said I should get a Tdap booster just in case" (outside, puncture wound, healed over fast are the three major risk factors for tetanus)
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Periodic reminder: the vaccine efficacy of the pertussis vaccine drops below 50% at 4.5 years. You should be getting a Tdap booster every 5 years, not every 10. It is especially vital if you have contact with pregnant people or infants too young to be vaccinated.
After two infants died, the Louisiana Dept of Health under the leadership of the new incoming deputy director of the CDC, delayed notifying the public for months of a whooping cough outbreak. Instead, he ordered DOH to stop promoting vaccines. Pertussis is currently a national health crisis.
Louisiana officials waited months to warn public of whooping cough outbreak
After a whooping cough outbreak killed two infants, Louisiana health officials waited months to officially alert physicians or do public outreach. That's not the typical public health response.
www.npr.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Periodic reminder: the vaccine efficacy of the pertussis vaccine drops below 50% at 4.5 years. You should be getting a Tdap booster every 5 years, not every 10. It is especially vital if you have contact with pregnant people or infants too young to be vaccinated.
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.
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New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
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If you're wondering how things have been going since the CDC shooting, someone bombed a friend's workplace at Harvard yesterday and, if you were going off the discourse on Bluesky, you would honestly never know it happened www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...
‘Intentional’ Explosion Took Place at Harvard Medical School, Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
If you're wondering how things have been going since the CDC shooting, someone bombed a friend's workplace at Harvard yesterday and, if you were going off the discourse on Bluesky, you would honestly never know it happened www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...
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Please help or boost if you're able! One Spirit Lakota is raising funds for the food pantry in anticipation of EBT cards possibly not getting filled for November due to the shutdown.
Funds go to feeding residents of Pine Ridge, which already has one of the worst food deserts in the country.
Funds go to feeding residents of Pine Ridge, which already has one of the worst food deserts in the country.
Feeding the Lakota
The Pine Ridge Reservation is a food desert, and many of the Lakota people there struggle with food insecurity. Even when people on the rez can afford food, they often struggle to find healthy, fresh ...
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October 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Please help or boost if you're able! One Spirit Lakota is raising funds for the food pantry in anticipation of EBT cards possibly not getting filled for November due to the shutdown.
Funds go to feeding residents of Pine Ridge, which already has one of the worst food deserts in the country.
Funds go to feeding residents of Pine Ridge, which already has one of the worst food deserts in the country.
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Look I try not to doomsay or spread panic but this shit is truly and deeply Very Bad for every single trans person in America and unless everyone makes it their mission in life over the next few days to make sure that their reps know that shutting down the government is the correct option here.
Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned
The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.
www.thepinknews.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Look I try not to doomsay or spread panic but this shit is truly and deeply Very Bad for every single trans person in America and unless everyone makes it their mission in life over the next few days to make sure that their reps know that shutting down the government is the correct option here.
here's my first series of cords braided on a marudai! i wound my bobbins unevenly and ran out of a color at a time, which was a neat opportunity to play with complementary patterns. the 12 and 8 element braids had a 35% (vs 45%) counterweight, which works better with clothespin bobbins. #kumihimo
September 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
here's my first series of cords braided on a marudai! i wound my bobbins unevenly and ran out of a color at a time, which was a neat opportunity to play with complementary patterns. the 12 and 8 element braids had a 35% (vs 45%) counterweight, which works better with clothespin bobbins. #kumihimo
this is the first long braid i made on this stand, which is how i found out a 45% counterweight is too much if you're using clothespins for bobbins (6g each) it ended up right around 100" and should make a pretty nice pair of bootlaces #kumihimo
September 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
this is the first long braid i made on this stand, which is how i found out a 45% counterweight is too much if you're using clothespins for bobbins (6g each) it ended up right around 100" and should make a pretty nice pair of bootlaces #kumihimo
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If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
September 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
i decided to try a braid that would be a nightmare on a disk for my first time using a marudai. i love it! the original six inch legs do not give me enough braiding room, though. #kumihimo
September 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
i decided to try a braid that would be a nightmare on a disk for my first time using a marudai. i love it! the original six inch legs do not give me enough braiding room, though. #kumihimo