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Courtney Milan

@courtneymilan.com

I’m saying this because I got tagged into someone saying “well, it won’t be a problem if nobody does illegal things at protests.”

Illegal things like what, getting kettled by cops after they tear gas your peaceful, permitted protest?

September 18, 2025 at 4:34 AM

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Tal B. Lavin

@swordsjew.bsky.social

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

September 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM

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Ahhhhh

@nerdjpg.com

Yeah well we have this little thing called freedom of the press. Yeah it’s pretty neat. 3 guys control the media and social media and they have more wealth than half the planet. If you ask about gun control they put you in a dog cage

September 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM

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Iron Circus Comics

@ironcircuscomics.bsky.social

Happy Labor Day!

Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work...

Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?

Stanhill, Lancashire, 1764. Wear and carpenter James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny, the first practical spinning-frame, to make the tedious task of producing cloth a little bit faster. He doesn't know it yet, but this will destroy the world.

Spurred by inventions like his, the industrial revolution will transform everything -- work power, the wealth of nations. Society as we know it began here, and it wasn't great for everyone. But a group of weavers and textile workers saw this future coming. And did their best to prevent it.

"Curse you spinning jenny, you ruined everything!" The standard narrative does that LUDDITES were foolish lunatics who, in fear of technology, decided progress was bad, and started hitting it with sticks. But the truth is entire ways of life were being destroyed.

Previously, skilled craftsmen were respected for the time and effort it took to do their work. The entire family usit would form a cottage industry - creating something valuable, and command a decent living. But when a machine can work 10 times faster its owner can charge less for the prodcts- craftsmen couldn't compete and were left out of work almost overnight.

And as factories became a fixture of the british landscape, these now unemployed labourers often ended up working the factories that had just destroyed their way of life. Britain was the most prosperous nation in history, factory owners became extremely wealthy and influential. But the people doing the actual work saw almost none of it.

Factory work paid little, since "the machines" did "the real work" human labourers were deemed unimportant and replaceable. FUN FACT!: Factory owners preferred to hire ORPHANS since less people would notice if they were maimed or killed on the job!

Now the owners quickly realized the workers might notice they did all the work for almost no pay. If they went on STRIKE or ARGUED FOR HGHER WAGES, this would threaten their tremendous wealth. In 1799, Parliament passed the Combination Act, which made FORMING TRADE UNIONS, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, AND GOING ON STRIKE ILLEGAL. Organizing against the rich became a crime.

If you were living through it, opposing the industrial revolution wasn't techno-phobia. It was SELF-DEFENSE. The combination act forced unions underground into secret societies. And the greatest secret of all was their leader - Ned Ludd. Ned had been a folk character for years. In one version after being whipped by his master, he smashed two knitting frames in a rage. In more fanciful versions, he then escaped to the Sherwood forest, here he lived among the animals as their king. Some versions specifically call him 'Much Better Than Robin Hood'.

September 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM

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Ian Bell Danskin

@innuendostudios.bsky.social

ai keeps expecting the buyer to get excited about how it saves the seller money

July 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM

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Norden Gail

@nordengail.bsky.social

Français et Françaises blanches, demain mercredi 18 juin et jeudi 19 juin, Retailleau lance ses troupes dans une vaste opération de contrôle dans les gares et trains
Alpaguez les forces de l'ordre pour leur demander un renseignement : vous ne trouvez pas votre train, votre siège, quelle heure il est

June 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM

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Grégoire Orain

@grgrrn.bsky.social

Autant la propagande du gouvernement israélien est un pur cynisme, autant ça doit être difficile d’être israélien•ne et de ne pas se manger une dissonance cognitive de maboule. Des frappes sur les hôpitaux, « le monde doit réagir », on rêve. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Israël dénonce une attaque iranienne « délibérée » contre un hôpital, dans le sud d’Israël
La vice-ministre israélienne des affaires étrangères, Sharren Haskel, a qualifié l’attaque contre un hôpital israélien de « délibérée » et de « criminelle », après des tirs de missiles iraniens jeudi matin. « L’Iran vient de frapper l’hôpital Soroka à Beersheva (sud) avec un missile balistique. Pas une base militaire. Un hôpital. Il s’agit du principal centre médical de toute la région du Néguev en Israël. Délibérée. Criminelle. Cible civile. Le monde doit réagir », a écrit Sharren Haskel sur X.

June 19, 2025 at 6:38 AM

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shaun

@shaunvids.bsky.social

i know it's just advertisement but it still pisses me off when tech CEOs claim AGI will solve humanity's problems with its vast intelligence. for a lot of problems we already know the solutions, what prevents them being solved is not a lack of intelligence, but that the solutions are unprofitable

June 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM