TerryStandsWithTrees
@indivizual.bsky.social
Pro-resistance. Pro-knowledge. Pro-kindness. Anti-fast fashion.
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In case it's helpful to anyone, Brian Merchant made a guide to getting off Spotify that includes information on individual competing services including rates of payouts to artists.
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
In case it's helpful to anyone, Brian Merchant made a guide to getting off Spotify that includes information on individual competing services including rates of payouts to artists.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Thank you, Zohran Mamdani, for the Know Your Rights video!
December 8, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Thank you, Zohran Mamdani, for the Know Your Rights video!
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I wish I had spoilers for the ending of this story
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 8, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I wish I had spoilers for the ending of this story
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without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
December 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
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These are all real sales! While there are large resellers (supermicro, dell) they don’t tend to hold inventory. The only way I can see there being anything dodgy is if anyone is able to cancel an order they paid for already somehow. No sign of that yet
bsky.app/profile/davi...
bsky.app/profile/davi...
So are these real sales to companies that are just hoarding and waiting 1) to actually build capacity or 2) to resell them at a premium when they become scarcer? Or are these fake sales a la Al “Chainsaw” Dunlap at Sunbeam?
I’m not sure any of these are good.
I’m not sure any of these are good.
December 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
These are all real sales! While there are large resellers (supermicro, dell) they don’t tend to hold inventory. The only way I can see there being anything dodgy is if anyone is able to cancel an order they paid for already somehow. No sign of that yet
bsky.app/profile/davi...
bsky.app/profile/davi...
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Get you a mayor who
Know Your Rights When Dealing With ICE
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Get you a mayor who
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I keep We Had It Coming by @lukeoneil47.bsky.social on my nightstand and read it in bed. Enjoy his wonderful writing but not the anxiety dreams it seems to prompt. I guess I had it coming.
December 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I keep We Had It Coming by @lukeoneil47.bsky.social on my nightstand and read it in bed. Enjoy his wonderful writing but not the anxiety dreams it seems to prompt. I guess I had it coming.
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Have you ever heard of Reginald F Lewis? Probably not, and I believe that's by design, as Black erasure is endemic in America.
Reginald F Lewis was the first Black person to build a billion dollar company, TLC Beatrice. It was also the first Black owned company to crack the fortune 500.
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Reginald F Lewis was the first Black person to build a billion dollar company, TLC Beatrice. It was also the first Black owned company to crack the fortune 500.
short 🧵
December 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Have you ever heard of Reginald F Lewis? Probably not, and I believe that's by design, as Black erasure is endemic in America.
Reginald F Lewis was the first Black person to build a billion dollar company, TLC Beatrice. It was also the first Black owned company to crack the fortune 500.
short 🧵
Reginald F Lewis was the first Black person to build a billion dollar company, TLC Beatrice. It was also the first Black owned company to crack the fortune 500.
short 🧵
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Small Wonders. #mushroom #fungi #mycology #forestfloor #naturelover #woodland #bokeh #macro #outdoors #nature #smartphonephotography #photography
December 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 AM
This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.
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the time of year when I'm like "people still do christmas? weird"
December 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
the time of year when I'm like "people still do christmas? weird"
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hegseth, and those allied to him, are hell-bent on making america one of the hardcore evil empires of history, like the Mongols, the Nazis, the Assyrians
December 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
hegseth, and those allied to him, are hell-bent on making america one of the hardcore evil empires of history, like the Mongols, the Nazis, the Assyrians
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“But society is protected by putting a man in jail for 7 years because he stole a pack of AA batteries as his third strike”
December 7, 2025 at 1:44 AM
“But society is protected by putting a man in jail for 7 years because he stole a pack of AA batteries as his third strike”
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whoever supports newsom is a closet republican
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 2:20 AM
whoever supports newsom is a closet republican
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idk who needs to hear this but when you cut and peel a pomegranate while it’s submerged under water, the seeds sink and the pith floats. and you don’t get the juice everywhere. it’s the only way to do it
December 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
idk who needs to hear this but when you cut and peel a pomegranate while it’s submerged under water, the seeds sink and the pith floats. and you don’t get the juice everywhere. it’s the only way to do it
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Speak on this!
I don’t think night people get enough credit for adapting to a world run by day people
December 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Speak on this!
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My sister asked me to draw her a hellbender (aka, a snot otter). It turned out pretty well!
Also...did you know you can hire me to draw things like this for you? You don't even have to be family!
Also...did you know you can hire me to draw things like this for you? You don't even have to be family!
December 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
My sister asked me to draw her a hellbender (aka, a snot otter). It turned out pretty well!
Also...did you know you can hire me to draw things like this for you? You don't even have to be family!
Also...did you know you can hire me to draw things like this for you? You don't even have to be family!
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The hot hate of a burning sun.
December 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The hot hate of a burning sun.
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christianity is the religion of imperialism
She compares the boat strikes to Jesus breaking the sabbath to heal someone.
December 6, 2025 at 9:52 PM
christianity is the religion of imperialism
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mixed emotions being in a room of hundreds of people who want to know what to do if they see ICE on the streets of NYC: proud and hopeful that so many are willing to put their bodies on the line; deeply disturbed that it’s come to this.
December 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
mixed emotions being in a room of hundreds of people who want to know what to do if they see ICE on the streets of NYC: proud and hopeful that so many are willing to put their bodies on the line; deeply disturbed that it’s come to this.
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i’m at the brooklyn training. amazing energy.
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
December 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
i’m at the brooklyn training. amazing energy.
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I think about all the years no one was infiltrating the right wing movement in this country to dismantle it. Instead, lawmakers were utilized to expand & grow right wing policy. There is no true political “left” represented in our parties bc billionaires are sociopaths & own our entire government.
December 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I think about all the years no one was infiltrating the right wing movement in this country to dismantle it. Instead, lawmakers were utilized to expand & grow right wing policy. There is no true political “left” represented in our parties bc billionaires are sociopaths & own our entire government.
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They did this in our Denver suburb school district. It was done without teacher input because we have “business partnerships” and the district admin pulls crap like this all the time. Hopefully our new school board will keep better tabs.
December 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
They did this in our Denver suburb school district. It was done without teacher input because we have “business partnerships” and the district admin pulls crap like this all the time. Hopefully our new school board will keep better tabs.