Kallastra
@kallastra.bsky.social
Former Sexy Murder Poet, Current Basically Pleasant Bureaucrat. (H/T Liam Bright).
Here to play academic and learn. Interests: philosophy, poetry, knitting, spinning, law, community, running when health permits
Here to play academic and learn. Interests: philosophy, poetry, knitting, spinning, law, community, running when health permits
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this is why the black panther party was demonized and called terrorists by the govt. they were feeding ppl, holding clinics for healthcare, providing ambulance services, security, transportation. they had the govt shook.
We can't unite or unionize on anything if we are not in community with one another. That is why community is where the revolution starts. Once community is strong enough to depend on one another (& subsequently rely less on the government) we will be strong enough to fight back.
November 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
this is why the black panther party was demonized and called terrorists by the govt. they were feeding ppl, holding clinics for healthcare, providing ambulance services, security, transportation. they had the govt shook.
always grateful when somebody can put into words the inchoate thoughts I have swimming around my head
I am not defending Chuck Schumer, but I do think it is slightly more reasonable than we give credit to say that we cannot allow starving Americans, withholding their pay, and compromising their safety to become the way we do policy here. Saying “we were winning!” - no one wins when kids go hungry.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
always grateful when somebody can put into words the inchoate thoughts I have swimming around my head
I need to talk about this store at Dulles Town Center. Anybody know what I’m talking about?
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I need to talk about this store at Dulles Town Center. Anybody know what I’m talking about?
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
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We need a movie that depicts a man obsessed with a woman in her office job who ignores her in her made over look
November 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
We need a movie that depicts a man obsessed with a woman in her office job who ignores her in her made over look
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I'm never EVER going back to that store but all retail makes staff be that invasive.
I'm certain "Smile and offer Guest complimentary pap smear" is in the LUSH handbook, for example.
I'm certain "Smile and offer Guest complimentary pap smear" is in the LUSH handbook, for example.
November 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I'm never EVER going back to that store but all retail makes staff be that invasive.
I'm certain "Smile and offer Guest complimentary pap smear" is in the LUSH handbook, for example.
I'm certain "Smile and offer Guest complimentary pap smear" is in the LUSH handbook, for example.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Because theres still the 1st Circuit court between the judge that made the ruling and the SC.
I know we're all pissed, but theres rules and protocols that have to be followed.
If the 1st circut agrees with the first judge, it wont even get to the SC.
I know we're all pissed, but theres rules and protocols that have to be followed.
If the 1st circut agrees with the first judge, it wont even get to the SC.
November 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Because theres still the 1st Circuit court between the judge that made the ruling and the SC.
I know we're all pissed, but theres rules and protocols that have to be followed.
If the 1st circut agrees with the first judge, it wont even get to the SC.
I know we're all pissed, but theres rules and protocols that have to be followed.
If the 1st circut agrees with the first judge, it wont even get to the SC.
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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GODDAMMIT I DON’T WANT TO LIVE IN A COUNTRY WHERE I NEED A LAWYER EVERY SINGLE DAY BC OF THIS SHITTY GOVERNMENT, JUST TO EXPLAIN HOW FUCKED OR NOT FUCKED WE ARE.
#SNAP
#SNAP
November 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
GODDAMMIT I DON’T WANT TO LIVE IN A COUNTRY WHERE I NEED A LAWYER EVERY SINGLE DAY BC OF THIS SHITTY GOVERNMENT, JUST TO EXPLAIN HOW FUCKED OR NOT FUCKED WE ARE.
#SNAP
#SNAP
I’m not Greek Orthodox but seriously, we could appropriate Epiphany & make it a big secular celebration to combat winter yucks. Post holiday sales! Leftover feasts! We can make this happen!
Being raised Greek Orthodox, I always feel like making a big deal of the Epiphany would also do a lot to mitigate post-Christmas blues.
November 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I’m not Greek Orthodox but seriously, we could appropriate Epiphany & make it a big secular celebration to combat winter yucks. Post holiday sales! Leftover feasts! We can make this happen!
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My most unhinged, yuck your yum, NIMBY opinion is no Christmas music until the day after Thanksgiving.
Come on man, you can’t blast out the Christmas playlist all day in early November.
November 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
My most unhinged, yuck your yum, NIMBY opinion is no Christmas music until the day after Thanksgiving.
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Oh also - lawyers aren’t allowed to tell jurors this so i do:
“Jury nullification” is a fancy phrase that just means, “This jury decided not to convict and there’s nothing anyone can do about that.”
If we think a law is unjust or unjustly enforced, we can just not convict. We don’t need a reason.
“Jury nullification” is a fancy phrase that just means, “This jury decided not to convict and there’s nothing anyone can do about that.”
If we think a law is unjust or unjustly enforced, we can just not convict. We don’t need a reason.
Jury nullification imo
November 27, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Oh also - lawyers aren’t allowed to tell jurors this so i do:
“Jury nullification” is a fancy phrase that just means, “This jury decided not to convict and there’s nothing anyone can do about that.”
If we think a law is unjust or unjustly enforced, we can just not convict. We don’t need a reason.
“Jury nullification” is a fancy phrase that just means, “This jury decided not to convict and there’s nothing anyone can do about that.”
If we think a law is unjust or unjustly enforced, we can just not convict. We don’t need a reason.
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This is not a game. The life trajectories of women around the world, including myself and my mother, are defined by the attempt to free ourselves of men obsessed with domination. The press platforming this shit for clicks literally destroys women's lives. We are called on to fight it accordingly
November 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This is not a game. The life trajectories of women around the world, including myself and my mother, are defined by the attempt to free ourselves of men obsessed with domination. The press platforming this shit for clicks literally destroys women's lives. We are called on to fight it accordingly
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A photojournalist was arrested by ICE at gunpoint — and his DACA status revoked.
“Ya’akub isn’t being accused of breaking immigration law — his DACA protection doesn’t expire until May 2026. In fact Ya’akub’s lawyers say he hasn’t been accused of any crime.”
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/04/h...
“Ya’akub isn’t being accused of breaking immigration law — his DACA protection doesn’t expire until May 2026. In fact Ya’akub’s lawyers say he hasn’t been accused of any crime.”
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/04/h...
When Storytelling Is Called ‘Terrorism’: How My Friend and Fellow Journalist Was Targeted by ICE
As a DACA recipient, Ya'akub Ira Vijandre’s arrest holds drastic implications for the state of free speech in America.
thebarbedwire.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A photojournalist was arrested by ICE at gunpoint — and his DACA status revoked.
“Ya’akub isn’t being accused of breaking immigration law — his DACA protection doesn’t expire until May 2026. In fact Ya’akub’s lawyers say he hasn’t been accused of any crime.”
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/04/h...
“Ya’akub isn’t being accused of breaking immigration law — his DACA protection doesn’t expire until May 2026. In fact Ya’akub’s lawyers say he hasn’t been accused of any crime.”
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/04/h...
I love this so fucking hard! Run everybody…RUN!!
I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.
November 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I love this so fucking hard! Run everybody…RUN!!
you can learn a lot about a country’s behavior by looking at the laws they make. shook that this is a thing that even needs to be said
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
you can learn a lot about a country’s behavior by looking at the laws they make. shook that this is a thing that even needs to be said
What I love most about Mamdani’s success for me personally is that my vibe is also uber positive super earnest and so I love to see this succeeding. My people (extreme extroverts) are seldom recognized and are so often dismissed.
November 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
What I love most about Mamdani’s success for me personally is that my vibe is also uber positive super earnest and so I love to see this succeeding. My people (extreme extroverts) are seldom recognized and are so often dismissed.
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BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike.
Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.
Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.
Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike.
Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.
Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.
Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
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"Far left" these days is "maybe people shouldn't starve, even if they're disabled or out of work".
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"Far left" these days is "maybe people shouldn't starve, even if they're disabled or out of work".
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It's no coincidence that the party wasn't energized by the 2nd Biden run, but was when Harris became the candidate. I'm convinced that if we stop inching towards the middle, if we say feminist, queer, pro choice, with our whole chests that we will have a real movement.
November 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It's no coincidence that the party wasn't energized by the 2nd Biden run, but was when Harris became the candidate. I'm convinced that if we stop inching towards the middle, if we say feminist, queer, pro choice, with our whole chests that we will have a real movement.
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🚨BREAKING NEWS! The Virginia House of Delegates has not only been defended, but expanded — making VA the nation’s newest pro-democracy trifecta!
November 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
🚨BREAKING NEWS! The Virginia House of Delegates has not only been defended, but expanded — making VA the nation’s newest pro-democracy trifecta!
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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Also, contact your legislators and USDA to urge them to use their power to continue SNAP benefits here. frac.org/action
November 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Also, contact your legislators and USDA to urge them to use their power to continue SNAP benefits here. frac.org/action
Sparrow is an incredible resource and this thread on food insecurity is very thoughtful
[Food insecurity]
a thing I am thinking about as so many people lose access to SNAP and food prices soar:
so many doctors in the US have very limited practical experience in recognizing and treating malnutrition and nutrient deficiencies like Scurvy and Rickets and Beriberi
a thing I am thinking about as so many people lose access to SNAP and food prices soar:
so many doctors in the US have very limited practical experience in recognizing and treating malnutrition and nutrient deficiencies like Scurvy and Rickets and Beriberi
Scurvy's Unexpected Resurgence: Unpacking the Causes and Implications - News Usa Today
A nutritional ailment once linked to ancient mariners is making a resurgence in contemporary times. Scholars in the United States and beyond are alerting that
news-usa.today
November 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Sparrow is an incredible resource and this thread on food insecurity is very thoughtful