August
flickeringcandle.bsky.social
August
@flickeringcandle.bsky.social
They/them
Half an inch sunburn at my hairline bc I fucked ip my sunscreen and dared to go on a walk
March 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Nothing like eating a box of Mac and cheese after a mental breakdown
March 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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NEW: A group known as the 'puppygirl hacker polycule' has leaked thousands of police training & policy manuals from departments across the country www.dailydot.com/debug/lexipo...
EXCLUSIVE: Hackers leak cop manuals for departments nationwide after breaching major provider
Critics accuse the company of wielding outsized private influence on public policing.
www.dailydot.com
February 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Turns out the sleep aid I’ve been using is the active ingredient in Benadryl packaged as a sleep aid. Knocks me tf out but also fucks with my head. Disappointed I didn’t see the Hat Man
February 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Y’all, we’re not exaggerating when we say that the time to divest from Big Tech is NOW.

They have very openly stated that they intend to use all of this AI to do state surveillance.
in case your company uses Google Workspace and is despairing at how Gemini A.I. is getting pushed into everything—fear not! Slate's indefatigable IT chief embarked on a successful journey to get it removed from our end and wrote a detailed guide for the curious: slate.com/technology/2...
Google Quietly Installed A.I. to My Workspace. Getting Rid of It Was Creepy.
Opting out should not be a premium feature. It’s a basic right.
slate.com
January 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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State reliance on federal aid, provided through grants, ranges from 20.7% of the state budget in Hawaii to 46.1% in Montana. 7 of the top 10 recipients are deep-red states.
January 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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A reminder: the GWBush Admin built a prison at Gitmo not because of its size or facilities, but on the theory that because it was not in the US, US laws would not apply, and because US didn't recognize Cuban sovereignty over it Cuban law didn't either. It's a stateless, lawless zone of impunity.
Trump: Today I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the departments of defense and homeland security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay
January 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Print out or buy a bunch of these. Put them places. Go to different businesses and ask if you can leave some, remember which ones say yes and which ones say no.

www.ilrc.org/red-cards-ta...
Red Cards / Tarjetas Rojas | Immigrant Legal Resource Center | ILRC
All people in the United States, regardless of immigration status, have certain rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution. The ILRC’s Red Cards help people assert their rights and defend them...
www.ilrc.org
January 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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You can get narcan trained at endoverdose.net
Opioid Certification | END OVERDOSE
Ending drug-related overdose deaths through education, medical intervention, and public awareness.
endoverdose.net
January 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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#IRS #FreeFile is now open! Last year's pilot has expanded to 25 states!

NEW: AK / CT / ID / IL / KS / ME / MD / NJ / NM / NC / OR / PA / WI

Continuing: AZ / CA / FL / MA / NV / NH / NY / SD / TN / TX / WA

🚨FILE EARLY🚨

irs.gov/filing/irs-free-file-do-your-taxes-for-free
IRS Free File: Do your taxes for free | Internal Revenue Service
Prepare and file your federal income tax return online for free. File at an IRS partner site with the IRS Free File Program or use Free File Fillable Forms. It's safe, easy and no cost to you.
irs.gov
January 30, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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HOW F'N DUMB IS RFK JR?

Frogs change sex if there aren't enough females in a pond for a mating season, so to use frogs being exposed to a chemical changing sex means that test is garbage to begin with. They might have changed because the frogs saw no females and nature did the rest.
January 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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The CIA published a pamphlet on how individual citizens could sabotage fascist regimes during WWII, and it is now declassified and available for free on Project Gutenberg:

www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

If you have been struggling to know how to resist, start here.
Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
www.gutenberg.org
January 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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And the link to the full web archiving zine: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin...
DIY Web Archiving | Zine Bakery
Zine Bakery Bakeshop #2, by Quinn Dombrowski, Tessa Walsh, Anna Kijas, Ilya Kremer, and Amanda Wyatt Visconti
zinebakery.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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warm lines save lives. please share 💖

credit ig: @/inclusivetherapists
November 6, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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a double dog dare is how you got those two wolves inside you in the first place
January 29, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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When exchanging your @signal.org contact info over an insecure channel (like a text message or DM), it's a good idea to generate a Signal link (URL) from the app, then you should RESET that link after you connect with the other person on Signal.

Thanks to @micahflee.com for reporting.
Signal’s New Usernames Help Keep the Cops Out of Your Data
Ephemeral usernames instead of phone numbers safeguard privacy — and makes the Signal messenger app even harder to subpoena.
theintercept.com
January 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Just FYI good.store has some truly remarkable teas and blends and they have plenty of caffeine and loose leaf teas allow you to control the strength of your tea while getting superior flavor with less waste.

Also, 100% of profit goes to strengthen healthcare systems in the developing world.
Good Store
Founded by John and Hank Green with the belief that humanity can be good news. At Good Store, we’re searching the world for the best versions of the products that you use daily, like socks, coffee, or...
good.store
January 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
A friend of mine told me that they’ve been using a Light phone for some time now. I have been influenced.
In the near future I may retire my phone (which has had an impressive run so far — 4 years)
Catch me offline, fuckeeerrrrss

www.thelightphone.com/blog/light-i...
The Light Phone
Light is a radically different technology company. We design beautiful tools that respect and empower our users and our first product is The Light Phone.
www.thelightphone.com
January 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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STORY TIME:
1/ So, I somehow ended up having dinner at Nancy Mace’s house. Why? No clue. Maybe I lost a bet. Maybe I wanted to see if she actually eats freedom fries. Either way, I’m there, awkwardly pushing around some questionable meatloaf while she rants about how pronouns are ruining America.
January 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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from The Injustice Never Leaves You:
Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
by Monica Muñoz Martinez
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
January 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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If I've learned one thing about grieving and difficult times of late it is this: Don't deny the things that bring you moments of joy and relief. Those moments are not a betrayal, they are necessary to keep on going with the process of dealing with the difficult things.
January 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Once upon a time, I had a blog called The Cunting Linguist. I was a rage-against-the-machine-y kinda writer. Went viral lots. Ranked in Alexa's top-50 sites in the world.

I parked it a decade ago.

But this February, the Cunt's back.

Starting up a new site. The gloves are coming off.
January 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM