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Michael
@keancommander.bsky.social
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Not fun at parties

Boycotting Meta, X, Amazon, Spotify, Google

X/Twitter ❌ Bluesky ✅
Facebook/Instagram ❌ Substack/Flashes ✅
Google ❌ DuckDuckGo ✅
Google maps ❌ Here Wego ✅
Google Drive/Docs ❌ Dropbox/Paper ✅
Gmail ❌ Proton ✅
Spotify ❌ Qobuz ✅
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platestealer.bsky.social
Qobuz works well. So does Deezer, Tidal, YT Music, and Apple. They all suck to various degrees but there is life beyond Spotify. Most of these have free trials!
moonchildjs.bsky.social moonchildjs.bsky.social @moonchildjs.bsky.social · Oct 10
Spotify is now running ICE recruitment advertisements.
October 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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cavanaghandargus.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
keancommander.bsky.social
Imagine if everyone just showed up dressed like ICE. “I’m ICE”. “No I’M ICE”. “Let’s see your face and identification”. “No, let’s see YOUR face and identification”. “…”. “…….” #ice
July 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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nicknobody.bsky.social
The Labor government has abandoned International Law so it can continue to aid Israel’s genocide in secret while expressing mild concern in public #auspol #gaza
April 21, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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larry1504.bsky.social
April 18, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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repurpose.io
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Try it free at Repurpose.io

#bluesky #repurposeio #shorts #reels #tiktok
April 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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profleejones.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Phone footage appears to contradict Israeli account of killing of Gaza medics
Israel says soldiers fired on ‘terrorists’ in ‘suspicious vehicles’ but footage shows clearly marked ambulances
www.theguardian.com
April 6, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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anna26458.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘What was their crime?’ Families tell of shock over IDF killing of Gaza paramedics
Relatives who waited agonising week before bodies were found speak of passion that drove Red Crescent workers
www.theguardian.com
April 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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news-feed.bsky.social
@TRTWorldNow: Israeli occupation forces admit their soldiers killed 15 medics and emergency responders in Gaza last month after a video leak, saying the incident would be investigated https://t.co/QZwXuKIbDZ
April 6, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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lindsaymeyerharley.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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garywhitta.bsky.social
And arrogant, which only compounds it.
March 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
keancommander.bsky.social
“we’ve ended up giving over our lives to large, centralized platforms whose CEOs have styled themselves as self-made monarchs of the kingdoms that we’ve built for them with our data and our time.We have to remember where the power really lies because we gave them that power and we can take it back.”
March 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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vincentledvina.bsky.social
Stepping outside our cabin in remote Alaska last night and witnessing the aurora borealis from the front door...
March 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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ericmbudd.com
these numbers are so great. magic economic and quality of life stimulus for New York City
samd.bsky.social Sam @samd.bsky.social · Mar 24
some more congestion pricing Ws:

Broadway attendance: up 21%
Restaurant reservations: up 7%
Pedestrian traffic: up 4%
Retail sales: up $900M
Commercial leasing: up 61%
Subway crime: down 37%
Car crashes: down 50%
Honking complaints: down 69%
March 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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tonymartin.bsky.social
I BOUGHT THIS BEFORE ELON WENT CRAZY.
March 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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kazually.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/kazu...
kazually.bsky.social Kazually @kazually.bsky.social · Mar 9
Deactivation Day. No More Fools. April 1, 2025
March 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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caseyjohnston.bsky.social
it's working, keep going
solomonmissouri.bsky.social Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · Mar 4
I'm sure this is fine
Tesla down 124
March 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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richardbranson.bsky.social
(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
March 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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megabeth18.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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an-leavy.bsky.social
Disgraceful and dangerous

Extract yourself from Meta as fast as you can
March 5, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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bluestormcomin1.bsky.social
Never forget the #GopAgenda 🚨

They are working furiously to dismantle our country, your rights, benefits and freedoms.

If you plan to #Resist with us I want to see your 👋

My followers and I want to follow you!

Like 💙

Repost for more coverage and friends

#BlueStormComin1 #FbaRmy
March 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
keancommander.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/owenjone...
The Gaza "ceasefire" is a racist lie
Apparently a "ceasefire" means it's OK to slaughter Palestinians. This isn't even subtle racism
open.substack.com
February 24, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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danhannigan.me
Tried out @flashes.blue in beta, and… even though it looks like just another image-sharing app, the way it works under the hood is nudging closer to my ideal social media experience.

danhannigan.me/the-flashes-...
Why the Flashes App is Renewing My Hope in Federated Social Media
The Dream of Federated Social Media For years, the idea of federated social media has been floating around as this idealistic vision of a better internet—one where you actually own your identity and ...
danhannigan.me
February 23, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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peterhollo.com
The brilliant Naomi Klein: "How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war".

Particularly important is the cynical linking of October 7 with the Holocaust (cynical or naïve - depending on who).
The goal of hasbara is Jewish fear.

I really recommend the whole thing.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
An excerpt from the article text, most of which is: ... This, Hirsch says, has a great deal to do with how tightly Holocaust memory has been tethered to Zionism, with the creation of the highly militarized state of Israel cast as “redemption” from the destruction of the Holocaust. In this narrative, dominant in Jewish schools, summer camps, synagogues and Birthright trips to Israel, “healing only comes from the ‘homeland’”. That means that when the homeland comes under intense attack, as it did on 7 October, all of the trauma – implanted through those films and museums and memoirs and horror stories – comes rushing back and the threat feels existential. If it’s true that the Holocaust can return at any time, and Israel is the only safeguard against that happening, “it creates a kind of alibi for whatever Israel wants to do” – an alibi whose horrific implications we have seen in relentless action over the last 12 months. ... But it does raise the question: why does it seem that so many prominent Jewish leaders want Israel to have suffered a modern-day Holocaust of its own, enough to indulge these false and dangerous comparisons? On one level, it makes little sense: Israel’s Staatsraison is its claim that it alone can guarantee Jewish safety in the face of Jew-hatred, cast as a primordial force in the human psyche that can rise up with genocidal fury at any moment. The 7 October attacks were brutal, but they did not represent an exterminatory threat to either Israelis or Jews as a people. Why, then, would Israel want to undercut its core mission by advancing a narrative that makes it seem less safe than it actually is? Here is one theory: the wound at the heart of Israel’s founding is that Palestinians have been forced to pay for Europe’s crimes. Forced to pay with their land. Their homes. Their freedom. Their blood. ...in what many Palestinian scholars and political leaders, from Hanan Ashrawi to Joseph Massad, have termed the “ongoing Nakba”. However, if Palestinians are the new Nazis, or worse than Nazis (as we have heard this year), and if 7 October is a new Holocaust, or an extension of it, that would even the score after the fact. Put differently, in the new national identity being forged around that traumatic day, Israel might be less physically safe than it has long claimed, but it believes it is more politically safe, since it would, within this logic, not be founded on the crime of ethnically cleansing a people who never posed an existential threat to the Jews. And that means it would be safe to finally finish the job of the Nakba, which looks very much like what is under way [now]...
October 10, 2024 at 6:20 AM