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feliciadavin.com
raise your hand if you're not in NYC but you're following the mayoral election out of a desperate need to believe that good things are possible
June 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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reproutopia.bsky.social
RIP David Lynch. I cannot call myself a connoisseur or even really a fan but, like many, I will be chewing forever on the lessons from Twin Peaks that suggest truly eradicating sexual violence would mean transforming everything about our households, families, towns, nations, genders, and hearts.
January 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
hipstersmurf.bsky.social
Girl dinner
Closeup of the back of a brown tabby cat’s head. She is staring intently at a small pink ceramic platter holding grilled beef, grilled chicken, and pickles.
December 31, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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mostlybree.kitrocha.com
I am going to say that this impacts my interest in paying for any premium @bsky.app subscriptions. The point was to give them money so they can maintain a decently moderated space.

If it's the community's job to make it safe, I'll give that $ to the community. @safety.bsky.app
December 13, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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solomonmissouri.bsky.social
I pray you get everything you hope for others
November 21, 2024 at 6:04 PM
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kashana.blacksky.app
Can a Black woman who’s drowning in student debt join up with her mall coworkers to defeat the Debt Police and destroy their student loan company by pulling off the heist of a lifetime? Find out in The Payback, out July 15, 2025, preorder now: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Pa...
The Payback, a novel by Kashana Cauley, coming summer 2025, available for preorder now.
October 16, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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petridishes.bsky.social
I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM
The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I’m told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers. But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them. Let me tell you something. I am having a baby (It’s a boy!), and he is expected on Jan. 6, 2025 (It’s a … Proud Boy?). This is either slightly funny or not at all funny. This whole election, I have been lurching around, increasingly heavily pregnant, nauseated, unwieldy, full of the commingled hopes and terrors that come every time you are on the verge of introducing a new person to the world. Well, that world will look very different, depending on the outcome of November’s election, and I care which world my kid gets born into. I also live here myself. And I happen to care about the people who are already here, in this world. Come to think of it, I have a lot of reasons for caring how the election goes. I think it should be obvious that this is not an election for sitting out. The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.” “But maybe he’ll forget” is not enough to hang a country on! Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy. But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it. Trust is like that, too, as newspapers know. I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting, knowing that their editors have their backs, that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear. That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so. That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself!
October 26, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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nataliereed84.bsky.social
I made a little link thingy. I hope this works!

www.paypal.com/donate/?host...
September 30, 2024 at 4:44 AM
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hbediting.bsky.social
I may not be able to buy all the books from all the indie authors I want to support, but I can fill out request forms at my local libraries 🫶
September 23, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
Pretty specific implications for trans people too
phoenixcalida.bsky.social Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · Sep 20
Oh. Is this why the GOP wants to pass the SAVE act so bad? To be able to prevent women from voting? Especially women in blue states?

newrepublic.com/article/1861...
Screencap of text that reads "And what will the law require citizens who want to vote do? Lacking a passport or other proof of citizenship with their married names, they must produce both a birth certificate (with the seal of the state where it was issued; no copies allowed) and a current form of identification—both with the exact same name on them. That could instantly disqualify about 90 percent of all married women without passports or other proof that matches their birth certificates or proof of a legal name change."
September 20, 2024 at 10:30 PM
hipstersmurf.bsky.social
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #325,877!
September 16, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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nataliereed84.bsky.social
Fuck everyone, I'm sorry… it's my last day to try to get this together, and I'm still short by at least a couple hundred.

Anything you can pitch in at all would be fantastic. Even if it's just like $10 or whatever it still helps. And even if you can't, that's okay, thank you anyway. ❤️
September 2, 2024 at 8:26 PM
hipstersmurf.bsky.social
Lily (2024)
A brown tabby cat laying on her side on a dark hardwood floor. She is looking over her shoulder and toward the camera.
August 30, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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polgreen.bsky.social
To anyone who thinks the right wing war against trans people is a fringe issue, please follow this terrific series by The 19th. The core aims of this movement, if achieved, will have a profound impact on all of us. 19thnews.org/2024/08/the-...
The toll of America's anti-trans war
To understand how the anti-trans agenda could reshape all of our lives, The 19th set out to examine how the laws and rhetoric behind it are impacting Americans.
19thnews.org
August 26, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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scretladyspider.bsky.social
Queer disabled ace. Trying to raise $660 just for the first part of my rent. Goal was two days ago. Going to have to up it soon for the rest of expenses… been homeless once, in a lot of ways still recovering, desperate not to repeat it. Anything helps.
bsky.app/profile/scre...
August 24, 2024 at 5:59 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
"We are no longer constrained by the respectability politics of yore because we’re not facing the Republican Party of yore. The fighting spirit of online millennial posters has finally leapt off the screen and into real life, and the Democratic Party is reaping the benefits."
Millennials have taken over the DNC. Good.
RIP to "when they go low, we go high"
www.thehandbasket.co
August 22, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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fightingpride93.bsky.social
I haven't had any new sign-ups in a week and I'm absolutely nowhere near making rent.

Realistically the only chance I have is if you sign up for an annual subscription. That gets you 16% off.

I need 12 people to do this by the end of the month if I'm going to make rent.
fightingpride93.bsky.social Jane @fightingpride93.bsky.social · Jul 24
I'm a black trans woman fighting poverty and homelessness.

To support myself, I set up a patreon where you can get access to all my recipes, poetry, artwork and photography for just £5.

Something new EVERY SINGLE DAY. You won't regret it.

http://patreon.com/fightingpride93
Hot dog with caramelised onions and cheese Pasta with sliced hot dogs in a tomato sauce oreo chocolate pie biscoff slice with marbling
August 18, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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gregpak.net
I called Governor Tony Evers' office to ask him to pardon Chrystul Kizer. Feel free to call if you feel similarly - 608-266-1212. #DidThisToday

For more information, here's a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel column from two days ago advocating for mercy for Kizer. www.jsonline.com/story/opinio...
August 19, 2024 at 6:40 PM
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scretladyspider.bsky.social
Hi! I’m queer, disabled, and trying to raise the first part of my rent/living expenses for August by 8/22. $1400 to go. Anything helps!
Background: horizontal stripes in different shades of pink. In the middle, a light yellow square with a white border. Text inside square reads: “$1400 needed by disabled queer ace by August 22nd for first part of rent and living expenses.” Next is payment information: “venmo is secretladyspider. Cashapp is secretladyspider. PayPal is secretladyspider at gmail dot com.” Text at the bottom reads: “please share! Anything helps. Thank you!”
August 16, 2024 at 3:18 PM