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HappyKaijuStompyTime
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she/her Gringa in cactusland. Bsky is not free of antisemitic, anti-palestinian, anti-muslim, anti lgbtq, or other racist/bigoted accounts. Not seeing them is a sign of successful curation/deplatforming/blocklist use by people who experience bigotry *here*
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Shining a Light for Healing By Candlelight For Emily Pike Apache Gold Casino Parking Lot Saturday March 15, 6:30 P.M. A candlelight vigil will be conducted to honor the memory of Emily Pike, whose young life was tragically taken. This loss has impacted not just the San Carlos Apache Reservation but also neighboring communities, towns and tribes. This vigil will serve as a focal point for all of Arizona to come together and heal. It is essential for us to demonstrate our support for the grieving families and also to raise awareness about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women/People. All royalties, this is a request for your attendance, wear your crown, your sash and also the facial stamp of the MMIW movement. All are welcome to make signs, share a song, share a few words. Comfort on another. Emily loved art, so create art for her online and tag #MMIW #MMIP #Justice4EmilyPike. She was OUR daughter, OUR niece, OUR granddaughter. Let's share Emily's story and together begin this journey to find justice.
March 7, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Background image of Kendrick Lamar surrounded by dancers in red, white, & blue forming an American flag from the 2025 Superbowl halftime show. Text: I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed-- I, too, am America. The author's name -- Langston Hughes -- appears vertically along the left side of the poem's text, reading from the bottom up.
February 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Text image: What Native Communities Need to Know About ICE Raids. Subtle Native-influenced pattern on the background, the bottom features the logo 'Native Girls Vote' Text image: Steps to Protect Your Family - Carry your CDIB or Tribal Citizenship card at all times. - Ensure your child's school or daycare has copies of their CDIB or a letter of enrollment eligibility - Begin enrollment for children not yet enrolled in a federally recognized tribe. Request a letter confirming eligibility while waiting for their card. - If your child is too young for K-12 schools, ensure their daycare has documentation of their citizenship. Text image: Know Your Rights: Speak Up - Assert your citizenship: "I am a U.S. citizen. ICE has no authority to detain or arrest me." - Stay calm and do not provide more information than necessary. - You have the right to remain silent. ICE cannot force you to answer questions. - Document the encounter if it's safe to do so. Text image with photo: While ICE isn't targeting Native people directly, racial bias can lead to wrongful detainment, particularly for those with darker skin or non-Anglicized names. Photo depicting a presumed cop/fed in black cuffing a person in jeans and a t-shirt with a vehicle in the background. The image is cropped, showing only their lower torsos and arms.
January 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Screenshot of a post (platform uncertain) by Actual Pink Ranger@PinkRangerLyra Venom is an example of a villain who evolved into a hero because he was popular with readers and writers decided to rehabilitate him. By contrast, Magneto evolved into a hero because every decade since Reagan it's harder and harder to pretend he's wrong
December 1, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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Text image: Translation exhaustion The idea that Indigenous people (or any marginalized person/group) engaging with the larger population on a given subject or topic related to bias, must first set the stage in terms of historical context all the way to current day state of affairs, before even addressing said topic of bias - over and over again - due to the lack of education/backgroun the listener has. A direct impact of erasure of true Indigenous history beyond the cursory mention in our school systems. - Twyla Baker, Ph.D
November 18, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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Doggo!
A Weimaraner: greige short fur, big floppy ears, large as dogs go but not giant (80lbs or so). He's laying on a round dog bed looking at the floor rather than the camera because he is a tired old doggo and does not want you to ask him to move, but would surely lean in for ear scritches.
November 17, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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Photograph of a book on a black and earthtone patterned textile background. The book title is Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World The authors are: Phoebe Boswell Saidiya Hartman Janaina Oliveira Joseph M. Pierce Cristina Revera Garza Introduction by Christina Sharpe
November 16, 2024 at 9:17 PM
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Text image (looks like an image of a book page): "I never have been in despair about the world. Enraged. I've been enraged by the world, but never despair. I cannot afford despair...you can't tell the children that there is no hope." -- James Baldwin BLACK LITURGIES
November 12, 2024 at 12:42 AM
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Trilingual I voted sticker! The line between the English and Spanish lines is in Tohono O'odam.
www.recorder.pima.gov/IVotedSticker

"The Pima County Recorder’s Office plans to release other versions of the sticker that include the Yoeme or Yaqui language. "
A circular sticker. The top third or so of the background is white, the bottom is blue, and blue silhouettes of cacti and desert plants poking up into the white from the blue. The top line is on the white part and says 'I VOTED' in red text. The 2nd line is on the blue part and says 'A;ñi 'ant wodalt' in white text (the language is Tohono O'odam) The 3rd line says 'YO VOTÉ' in white text The bottom line is the hashtag #PimaCountyVotes
October 25, 2024 at 12:27 AM
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They're often more purply than bloody red, but they're quite striking and also yummy. (I've seen them described as like a regular orange with hints of raspberry.)
Half a blood orange next to a quarter of a blood orange. The flesh is purply red. The flavor is often described as having a hint of raspberry while still tasting like an orange.
October 20, 2024 at 11:04 PM
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Screenshot of social media post by Josh Tebach, MD @jtrebach which says: "oh your'e in a relationship? which one of you has haunting nighttime anxiety where you contemplate the world and death and your ultimate purpose and which one of you falls asleep in 10 seconds"
October 16, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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Venerable old gentledoggo.
A Weimaraner: greige short fur, big floppy ears, large as dogs go but not giant (80lbs or so). He's laying on a round dog bed looking at the floor rather than the camera because he is a tired old doggo and does not want you to ask him to move, but would surely lean in for ear scritches.
October 15, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #728,626!

I even did alt text.

I don't at all *feel* like a bluesky elder, but if earliest 10% is the cutoff I guess I fit.
Mostly text. I've tried to copy the capitalization verbatim. White background with the bluesky butterfly in the upper left. Text reads: "Celebrating 10M users [party popper emoji] #728,626" - the '#' is in blue There's a blue text 'stamp' slightly overlapping the last 2 numerals with the text 'BLUESKY ELDER CERTIFIED' circling the words 'FIRST 10%' Bottom right corner lists my bluesky handle, bottom right my join date (Aug 25, 2023)
September 16, 2024 at 11:12 PM
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Sorry, no source for this. (By all means supply one if you can.) (Also feel free to advise if my alt text needs improvement.)
Image of the titular goose from Untitled Goose game with dragonballs from the Dragonball franchise with this text in a white box below the pic: The goose has collected all the dragonballs. The dragon is summoned "What is your desire" the goose honks "...as you wish" the dragon disappears nothing noticeable has changed and that makes you nervous
August 10, 2024 at 6:48 AM
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They warned us about this in 1962 (book) and 1971 (film). "I was cured alright"
Film poster for Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange. Tagline: 'Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven.' (contextually that missing Oxford comma is intentional). The film and the book upon which it was based deal thematically with an experimental treatment that are likely prophetic in terms of AI brain chips for prisoners.
June 27, 2024 at 6:11 PM
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Aw, Obvious Plant missed an opportunity for a really great Primus reference:
Album Cover for the album 'Pork Soda' by the band Primus, featuring a somewhat wtf clay-mation pig face in a dark background with bubbles. Obligatory 'Primus Sucks' for the fans. (IYKYK)
June 10, 2024 at 10:46 PM