Cait Marie
@ladyroses91.bsky.social
She/her/hers; early 30s; educator; nerd; bisexual; neurospicy
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BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes?
American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
July 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes?
American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
All of this is driving me crazy. I don’t want to be surveilled all the time! Leave me alone!
Last week's Tea app leak and the UK's disastrous roll out of the Online Safety Act are an important snapshot of our near future: An internet that feels safer, but surveils our every move, supported by massive databases of our most embarrassing and sensitive data.
www.garbageday.email/p/the-tea-ap...
www.garbageday.email/p/the-tea-ap...
July 29, 2025 at 12:40 AM
All of this is driving me crazy. I don’t want to be surveilled all the time! Leave me alone!
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Averaged out, a journalist has been killed every 3 days since the conflict began.
To state the obvious, Western journalists, writers, and filmmakers need to talk more about our colleagues being murdered in Gaza and the West Bank. You can do it from pure self interest if you want: every journalist murdered with impunity is a precedent which is headed in your direction
Zichro L'MAAPACHA
May his memory be for the revolution ❤️🔥
The activist & writer Awdah Hathaleen-- who worked on the film NO OTHER LAND, & brought so many Jews, Israelis & others to Umm Al-Khair to teach abt the realities of settler violence,
was murdered by a West Bank settler w/terrorist record. +
May his memory be for the revolution ❤️🔥
The activist & writer Awdah Hathaleen-- who worked on the film NO OTHER LAND, & brought so many Jews, Israelis & others to Umm Al-Khair to teach abt the realities of settler violence,
was murdered by a West Bank settler w/terrorist record. +
July 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Averaged out, a journalist has been killed every 3 days since the conflict began.
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*Taps sign*
There is a reason I spent several years reporting in Texas and the South.
There's a reason the fiercest Dem resistance lately has been from Black Dems from Texas.
The playbook for what we are seeing on the national stage was tested and fireproofed in the South.
There's a reason the fiercest Dem resistance lately has been from Black Dems from Texas.
The playbook for what we are seeing on the national stage was tested and fireproofed in the South.
July 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
*Taps sign*
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i keep coming back to this.
Jason Stanley, philosopher and expert on fascism said “You know you're living in a fascist society when you're constantly going over in your head the reasons why YOU are safe.”
July 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
i keep coming back to this.
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This bill is an act of war by the billionaires and their white nationalist allies against the people of the United States.
It will take health care from millions of people to fund tax cut for billionaires, secret police to arrest the President’s critics, and concentration camps.
It’s fascism.
It will take health care from millions of people to fund tax cut for billionaires, secret police to arrest the President’s critics, and concentration camps.
It’s fascism.
July 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This bill is an act of war by the billionaires and their white nationalist allies against the people of the United States.
It will take health care from millions of people to fund tax cut for billionaires, secret police to arrest the President’s critics, and concentration camps.
It’s fascism.
It will take health care from millions of people to fund tax cut for billionaires, secret police to arrest the President’s critics, and concentration camps.
It’s fascism.
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We were hoping that this letter to @bsky.app could first be shared by a Gazan, but we were too worried that doing so would get their account deleted so we are sharing first.
You can sign on to the letter about the unfair treatment of Gazans on Bluesky here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
You can sign on to the letter about the unfair treatment of Gazans on Bluesky here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
![[CLICK here if you would like your name added to this letter]
النسخة العربية من هذه الرسالة متاحة أدناه.
Open Letter to the Bluesky Team About Their Treatment of Palestinians in Gaza
The signatories of this letter are all members of the Bluesky community, many of us have actively participated on the platform since its inception. We came to Bluesky because it was a breath of fresh air, a place that felt different from many of the other social media platforms. The lack of a central algorithm, the ability to build and use custom feeds, and the lack of penalty for link promotion contributed to an environment that allowed diverse and interesting voices to find their footing and community on Bluesky. While some of the signatories of this letter have had no issues with speaking their mind publicly on Bluesky, unfortunately that is not true for all the signatories because many are Palestinians currently living in Gaza.
These Palestinians are journalists, artists, engineers, teachers, grandmas, entrepreneurs, a man who owned an ice cream shop, a pediatrician who has been featured on CBS Morning News, aid workers, architects, waiters, pharmacists, students–and perhaps most essential to the backbone of Bluesky, posters. All of these people provide unique and interesting voices to the Bluesky community. However, unlike the other signatories of this letter, these Bluesky community members have struggled to keep their accounts on the platform. Most of them have lost multiple accounts and/or have had their accounts labeled as spam. Some cannot even make an account without it immediately being removed from the platform.
Gazans undertake immense efforts to simply be on Bluesky. Sometimes, they walk for miles just to have access to the internet. They scale rooftops where they are exposed to potential military attacks just for the opportunity to get better cell signals–one signatory of this letter tragically lost her brother this way. They use what little money they have to pay …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:squcwsoa45f5ibxykhzpnvnc/bafkreifkdvretowrpktkbdr3uq4abhyqv5v5ngzbrmrvkjotzthx7xatay@jpeg)
![End IP bans on any account from Gaza and allow them to make new accounts where they can comply with Bluesky rules and continue to be valued members of the community.
We understand that even if all these changes are made, many Gazans may still violate Bluesky rules in the future, but we hope that Bluesky will abandon their punitive approach to these violations and instead embrace an attitude of education, cooperation and community care– one that works to ensure people in Gaza can participate in a way that keeps their voices heard.
We also call on the Bluesky community to help and support these accounts however they can. We want to continue to build a healthy community with better community members and this cannot be done if Gazans continue to be shunned. We can use this as an opportunity to show how to protect all vulnerable groups in the future.
We hope that Bluesky does not follow the path of other social media platforms and instead forges ahead with a different philosophy. After all, that is the reason so many of its users are there. Bluesky's ethos of "No Caesars” should apply to all members of its community.
[To add your name to the list of signatories, click here.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:squcwsoa45f5ibxykhzpnvnc/bafkreiafdk7hh2kurcncuymod3iftzk3jp35icckd4lvicash3zvkdoq5y@jpeg)
May 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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We need to bring back the ‘weird’ allegations you guys
here's the full clip of RFK Jr losing his shit at Patty Murray today during a hearing so badly that Republican Sen. Capito had to step in and tell him to "hold back"
May 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
We need to bring back the ‘weird’ allegations you guys
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A sitting cabinet member being unable to define the bedrock principle of Anglo-American law for nearly a millennium will get .00001% of the coverage devoted to Hillary Clinton’s email server or Joe Biden’s mental capacity
Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, bungled answers on Tuesday about habeas corpus, incorrectly saying that the legal right of people to challenge their detention by the government was actually the president’s “constitutional right” to deport people.
Noem Incorrectly Defines Habeas Corpus as the President’s Right to Deport People
www.nytimes.com
May 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
A sitting cabinet member being unable to define the bedrock principle of Anglo-American law for nearly a millennium will get .00001% of the coverage devoted to Hillary Clinton’s email server or Joe Biden’s mental capacity
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If you think COVID vaccines should continue to be available to all: take 5 min and add your comments at the link below. (Advice for what to say in the linked thread.)
You do NOT have to accept this! Post on the public comments to pressure them to NOT do this! www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
May 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
If you think COVID vaccines should continue to be available to all: take 5 min and add your comments at the link below. (Advice for what to say in the linked thread.)
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April 5, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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"We should use the tools we have at our disposal" and "We should have better tools at our disposal" are not mutually exclusive statements.
April 5, 2024 at 6:59 PM
"We should use the tools we have at our disposal" and "We should have better tools at our disposal" are not mutually exclusive statements.
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The library board “fired the library director for refusing to move or remove 113 books that they feel are ‘inappropriate.’ The rest of the staff did something heroic in solidarity with their colleague: they walked out, locked up the library, and said No to this unethical board action.”
We all stand against book bans in theory, but 4 librarians in Prattville, Alabama lost their jobs standing against them. Please join me in donating to the GoFundMe that will help them make ends meet in this tough time.
Show me a receipt, I'll give you a compliment
www.gofundme.com/f/protect-pr...
Show me a receipt, I'll give you a compliment
www.gofundme.com/f/protect-pr...
Protect Prattville Library Staff and Patrons, organized by EveryLibrary Institute NFP
The Autauga-Prattville Alabama Library board has fired the lib… EveryLibrary Institute NFP needs your support for Protect Prattville Library Staff and Patrons
www.gofundme.com
April 5, 2024 at 8:09 PM
The library board “fired the library director for refusing to move or remove 113 books that they feel are ‘inappropriate.’ The rest of the staff did something heroic in solidarity with their colleague: they walked out, locked up the library, and said No to this unethical board action.”
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Confirming my belief that the end of the world will be logging on to social media and seeing 1000 people post "What is that in the sky" simultaneously
April 5, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Confirming my belief that the end of the world will be logging on to social media and seeing 1000 people post "What is that in the sky" simultaneously
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me at the start of the earthquake: this is the longest, biggest truck that has ever went down my street
me 7 seconds into the earthquake: wow yeah this must be some sort of stretch limo truck situation
me checking Twitter: wonder if anybody got eyes on that big truck
me 7 seconds into the earthquake: wow yeah this must be some sort of stretch limo truck situation
me checking Twitter: wonder if anybody got eyes on that big truck
April 5, 2024 at 2:32 PM
me at the start of the earthquake: this is the longest, biggest truck that has ever went down my street
me 7 seconds into the earthquake: wow yeah this must be some sort of stretch limo truck situation
me checking Twitter: wonder if anybody got eyes on that big truck
me 7 seconds into the earthquake: wow yeah this must be some sort of stretch limo truck situation
me checking Twitter: wonder if anybody got eyes on that big truck
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an earthquake three days before a total eclipse of the sun would absolutely have taken out a whole ass dynasty back in the day
April 5, 2024 at 2:37 PM
an earthquake three days before a total eclipse of the sun would absolutely have taken out a whole ass dynasty back in the day
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"I'm a big damn adult" he reminded himself as his partner fed him a cheese stick as he took a shower.
March 31, 2024 at 8:28 PM
"I'm a big damn adult" he reminded himself as his partner fed him a cheese stick as he took a shower.
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Greta oto, the glasswing butterfly, ranges from S. America to Texas.
They're one of a handful of terrestrial species that are truly *transparent*, neither scattering nor reflecting light. This aids in camouflage in any environment, an alternative to mimicry.
(📷: David Tiller)
They're one of a handful of terrestrial species that are truly *transparent*, neither scattering nor reflecting light. This aids in camouflage in any environment, an alternative to mimicry.
(📷: David Tiller)
April 4, 2024 at 12:14 PM
Greta oto, the glasswing butterfly, ranges from S. America to Texas.
They're one of a handful of terrestrial species that are truly *transparent*, neither scattering nor reflecting light. This aids in camouflage in any environment, an alternative to mimicry.
(📷: David Tiller)
They're one of a handful of terrestrial species that are truly *transparent*, neither scattering nor reflecting light. This aids in camouflage in any environment, an alternative to mimicry.
(📷: David Tiller)