lyra jay
@lyrajay.bsky.social
my bloodline is cursed to fight unseen demons
I paid a terrible price for this knowledge
not my art: profile art by @pinkgabbercat
I paid a terrible price for this knowledge
not my art: profile art by @pinkgabbercat
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Friendly reminder that striking workers are asking you not to patronize ANY Starbucks store.
If you're traveling this week, your airport definitely has other options. Zero reason to even think about crossing a picket line!
If you're traveling this week, your airport definitely has other options. Zero reason to even think about crossing a picket line!
November 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Friendly reminder that striking workers are asking you not to patronize ANY Starbucks store.
If you're traveling this week, your airport definitely has other options. Zero reason to even think about crossing a picket line!
If you're traveling this week, your airport definitely has other options. Zero reason to even think about crossing a picket line!
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This is what dismantling pillars of authoritarianism looks like.
These companies hold up the regime—Target advances inequities, Disney enables censorship, Spotify promotes ICE, Home Depot facilitates kidnappings, and Amazon funds Trump.
Each boycott takes power from Trump—and brings it back to us.
These companies hold up the regime—Target advances inequities, Disney enables censorship, Spotify promotes ICE, Home Depot facilitates kidnappings, and Amazon funds Trump.
Each boycott takes power from Trump—and brings it back to us.
November 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This is what dismantling pillars of authoritarianism looks like.
These companies hold up the regime—Target advances inequities, Disney enables censorship, Spotify promotes ICE, Home Depot facilitates kidnappings, and Amazon funds Trump.
Each boycott takes power from Trump—and brings it back to us.
These companies hold up the regime—Target advances inequities, Disney enables censorship, Spotify promotes ICE, Home Depot facilitates kidnappings, and Amazon funds Trump.
Each boycott takes power from Trump—and brings it back to us.
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Over the last 3 months, Home Depot’s and Spotify’s stocks have plummeted by 20%. This is what we, the people, will do to any company that sides with Trump’s fascist regime.
Target ❌
Disney ❌
Spotify ❌
Home Depot ❌
Amazon, you’re next. Learn how to take these companies down at weaintbuyingit.com.
Target ❌
Disney ❌
Spotify ❌
Home Depot ❌
Amazon, you’re next. Learn how to take these companies down at weaintbuyingit.com.
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Over the last 3 months, Home Depot’s and Spotify’s stocks have plummeted by 20%. This is what we, the people, will do to any company that sides with Trump’s fascist regime.
Target ❌
Disney ❌
Spotify ❌
Home Depot ❌
Amazon, you’re next. Learn how to take these companies down at weaintbuyingit.com.
Target ❌
Disney ❌
Spotify ❌
Home Depot ❌
Amazon, you’re next. Learn how to take these companies down at weaintbuyingit.com.
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Buses have been free in Tucson for years now. City check: still standing.
Well, well, well, imagine this:
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Buses have been free in Tucson for years now. City check: still standing.
Tuesday!
November 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Tuesday!
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@marawilson.bsky.social @comraderobot.bsky.social I am sick so I took the lazy road and just added little wired devices to some rats I drew for the Paris Olympics, but I think it does work:
November 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
@marawilson.bsky.social @comraderobot.bsky.social I am sick so I took the lazy road and just added little wired devices to some rats I drew for the Paris Olympics, but I think it does work:
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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A place of honor and goodness. A bastion of hope. A lighthouse in the long dark. A pillar of the community. YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY, BABY!!!
November 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
A place of honor and goodness. A bastion of hope. A lighthouse in the long dark. A pillar of the community. YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY, BABY!!!
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Taking down Trump isn’t even political anymore, it’s about taking down a transnational criminal organization operating at the highest echelons of US government and putting our international security at extreme risk.
November 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Taking down Trump isn’t even political anymore, it’s about taking down a transnational criminal organization operating at the highest echelons of US government and putting our international security at extreme risk.
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Want to support workers on strike?
✅ Follow us + share our posts about NOT BUYING STARBUCKS!
✅ Sign our No Contract No Coffee pledge, & we'll send you local calls to action throughout the strike: nocontractnocoffee.org
✅ Donate to our strike fund: sbworkersunited.org
✅ Follow us + share our posts about NOT BUYING STARBUCKS!
✅ Sign our No Contract No Coffee pledge, & we'll send you local calls to action throughout the strike: nocontractnocoffee.org
✅ Donate to our strike fund: sbworkersunited.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Want to support workers on strike?
✅ Follow us + share our posts about NOT BUYING STARBUCKS!
✅ Sign our No Contract No Coffee pledge, & we'll send you local calls to action throughout the strike: nocontractnocoffee.org
✅ Donate to our strike fund: sbworkersunited.org
✅ Follow us + share our posts about NOT BUYING STARBUCKS!
✅ Sign our No Contract No Coffee pledge, & we'll send you local calls to action throughout the strike: nocontractnocoffee.org
✅ Donate to our strike fund: sbworkersunited.org
Timeline cleanse
November 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Timeline cleanse
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Why,
You grave but reckless senators
You grave but reckless senators
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Why,
You grave but reckless senators
You grave but reckless senators
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never let them convince you that reading is a waste of time or that reading physical books is replaceable. Physical books, zines, etc -- these are spaces where we cannot be monitored, where we can truly be w/our own thoughts for a gd min & make up our own minds. Of course that frightens them
lmao this is the headline of someone who hasn't read a book in years
Oh fuck off
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
never let them convince you that reading is a waste of time or that reading physical books is replaceable. Physical books, zines, etc -- these are spaces where we cannot be monitored, where we can truly be w/our own thoughts for a gd min & make up our own minds. Of course that frightens them
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Honestly what Baltimore needs probably even more than more subway routes is the SEPTA regional rail network. It's prohibitively difficult to get anywhere on the periphery.
November 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Honestly what Baltimore needs probably even more than more subway routes is the SEPTA regional rail network. It's prohibitively difficult to get anywhere on the periphery.
‘Stacking Cistern My Bones on Top of Your Bones on Top of Your Bones’ by
GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI
reader.poetrymagazine.org/2025/09/19/s...
GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI
reader.poetrymagazine.org/2025/09/19/s...
Stacking Cistern My Bones on Top of Your Bones on Top of Your Bones
reader.poetrymagazine.org
November 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
‘Stacking Cistern My Bones on Top of Your Bones on Top of Your Bones’ by
GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI
reader.poetrymagazine.org/2025/09/19/s...
GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI
reader.poetrymagazine.org/2025/09/19/s...
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In the midst of our gerontocracy when it comes to the federal government, it's nice to see a younger person win a major election.
November 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
In the midst of our gerontocracy when it comes to the federal government, it's nice to see a younger person win a major election.
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Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
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Qobuz really is the non-Spotify winner so far in all my testing. library is a little light on EPs and weird singles compared the Swedish overlords, only downside for me so far
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Qobuz really is the non-Spotify winner so far in all my testing. library is a little light on EPs and weird singles compared the Swedish overlords, only downside for me so far
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here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
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The Mayor is here at hand.
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The Mayor is here at hand.
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This is why you can't succumb to nihilism. I know it's SO fucking hard, but that's what the fash want: for us to give up. Fuck them, it's not over
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
This is why you can't succumb to nihilism. I know it's SO fucking hard, but that's what the fash want: for us to give up. Fuck them, it's not over