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shanley

@shanley.com

Crypto is trying to get as much capital, cash, equity, stock, assets, transactions, real estate, loan activity, banking

transferred from the existing financial system and into itself.

They're raiding and looting the existing financial system.

August 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian

@janus.bsky.social

tapping the sign!

August 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM

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Gender Census

@gendercensus.bsky.social

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

Title: Gender Census 2025.

Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part.

Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.

July 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM

lira?

@lirayin.bsky.social

still thinking about this absolutely heinous caricature of a first date we overheard at a bubble tea place yesterday

woman was a POC, man was a deeply standard issue white man

first thing i overhear is -
man: that's my plan, i gotta buy tea and impress you
woman: ah--yeah, i like this chain...

March 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM

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WIRED

@wired.com

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow

As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

freedom.press

March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM

lira?

@lirayin.bsky.social

so on Wednesday i got assaulted (in a brightly lit area, with tons of other people around who were also walking home; there was no way it could've been "safer") by an unknown guy who took off his bag and whacked me across the chest with it. i'm not hurt. i'm still baffled & slightly dazed, though.

March 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian

@janus.bsky.social

for real tho folks, this is Bad

Pink triangle on a black background with the title “SILENCE = DEATH” “poppers do not cause AIDS”

Text:

“As we begin to see a crackdown by the FDA on companies producing poppers, it's easy to dismiss this as "not a big deal" but we assure you, it is.
RFK has lied and claimed that poppers cause AIDS. RFK has lied and said that drug use and homosexual activities cause AIDS. RFK is an HIV denialist and the crackdown on poppers is a direct consequence of this. HIV causes AIDS. The only thing that will stop AIDS is continuing to provide life saving medications to those with HIV and continuing to educate people with the facts. PREP significantly lowers your risk of contracting HIV. PEP significantly lowers your risk of contracting HIV. Condoms significantly lower your risk of contracting HIV. POPPERS DO NOT CAUSE AIDS.”

March 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM

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Lindsey Boylan

@lindseyboylan.bsky.social

Yes, Andrew Cuomo really is that bad:

The American Prospect @prospect.org · Feb 24

"This choreography is not really about Adams’s corruption. It’s all about the 2025 mayoral elections and the prospects of one Andrew Cuomo," Robert Kuttner argues: prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

Why Hochul Did Not Remove Adams

Today on TAP: It’s really all about blocking former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

prospect.org

February 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM

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tmonkey718

@tmonkey718.bsky.social

“Data doesn’t lie.” Spoken only by someone who has never worked with data in their life.

Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · Feb 24

🗞️ Today in Government Officials Who Don't Understand how Data Processing Works (And Are Allowing it to be Used to Harm Americans).
Let's take a look at the claim "data doesn't lie", shall we? 🧵

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 24

Johnson: "Elon's cracked the code. He's now inside these agencies. He's created these algorithms that are constantly crawling through the data & as he told me in his office, data doesn't lie. We're gonna be able to get the information. We're gonna be able to transform the way federal govt works."

February 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM

lira?

@lirayin.bsky.social

if you read one thing in the course of your fucking doomscroll today, let it be this

THEN GO FIND A WAY TO CONNECT WITH YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY

The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · Feb 5

i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

www.404media.co

February 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM

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unraveled

@unraveledpress.com

Stop what you're doing and read this today.

You can discourse and quote-dunk and fact-check until you’re blue in the face, but at a certain point, you have to stop and decide what truth you believe in. The internet has conditioned us to constantly seek new information, as if becoming a sponge of bad news will eventually yield the final piece of a puzzle. But there is also such a thing as having enough information. As the internet continues to enshittify, maybe what we really need is to start trusting each other and our own collective sense of what is true and good.

February 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian

@janus.bsky.social

it’s important to be strategic and you still need to pick your battles. but if your default response is compliance, you will achieve nothing. all you’re doing is giving up more and more ground.

February 7, 2025 at 12:33 AM

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Chelsea G. Summers

@chelseagsummers.bsky.social

I'm digging how this WWII guide is basically "gum up fascism by being an energy vampire." Let Colin Robinson be your guide in the fight against fascism. The link: www.404media.co/declassified...

From a WWII handbook on being a bad at job to roadblock fascism. Here's the text: “Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.”
“Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.”
“‘Misunderstand’ orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you can.”
“In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first. See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines.”
“To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.”
“Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.”
“Multiply paperwork in plausible ways.”
“Make mistakes in quantities of material when you are copying orders. Confuse similar names. Use wrong addresses.”
“Work slowly. Think out ways to increase the number of movements necessary on your job”
“Pretend that instructions are hard to understand, and ask to have them repeated more than once. Or pretend that you are particularly anxious to do your work, and pester the foreman with unnecessary questions.”
“Snarl up administration in every possible way. Fill out forms illegibly so that they will have to be done over; make mistakes or omit requested information in forms.”

February 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian

@janus.bsky.social

the point of this isn’t “we’re fucked” it’s that nobody is coming to save us. stop complaining get out into your community and do something to help people

The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · Feb 2

the dog house on fire with an i voted sticker saying “they can’t do this it’s illegal”

February 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM

lira?

@lirayin.bsky.social

new mishearing/mispronunciation of my name unlocked in MX: Dira

still way better than 'lie-ra'

February 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM

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Z. Doom - Official Compact Disc Lover

@world0fecho.bsky.social

spotify is not a music platform, it’s a tech platform designed to extract wealth from musicians and place it into the pockets of executives. hope this helps.

January 31, 2025 at 9:46 PM

lira?

@lirayin.bsky.social

saw a beach hippie with a broken-off dread tied to the end of one of their other dreads and if that ain't something

February 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall

@maggietokudahall.bsky.social

Hey while megaretailers profiting one of the richest men in world are out here doing this shit www.advocate.com/news/amazon-...

maybe it's a fun time to switch to @librofm.bsky.social for audiobooks. Select the indie bookstore you'd like to support, listen away. Comp prices to aforementioned jerks

Amazon removes 'equity for Black people' and 'LGBTQ+ rights' from company policies

Amazon has quietly removed protections for Black and LGBTQ+ workers from its company policies.

www.advocate.com

January 24, 2025 at 4:36 AM

lira?

@lirayin.bsky.social

train conductor, last stop: "this train is out of service. everybody get off this train. it's not going anywhere else. I don't know why you would want to stay on a train. you're not going to find anything in here. whatever you love is going to be out there."

WTC PATH guy, are you ok? who hurt you?

January 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM