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Prisonculture

@prisonculture.bsky.social

Kill the fascist within you.

July 6, 2025 at 2:23 AM

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Talia "Estro Junkies" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎

@taliabhatt.itch.io

The patriarchal sexualization of the very name for my identity, my word to describe how I love and engage in community and sisterhood, reduced to a pornographic classification, is viscerally disgusting and frankly a violation.

Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · Jul 2

I'm sorry WHAT. I cannot use "lesbian" in the alt text for this image showing off that my book is an finalist for an award in the category of gay and lesbian representation?!?! WTF AMAZON. "Gay" doesn't violate it. But "Lesbian" does?!

Screenshot from Amazon's A+ Content creation page, where you can set up additional promo graphics for your book. I am trying to add an image showing the Indie Ink Awards badge with text that reads "2024 Indie Ink Awards Finalist: Writing the Future we Need: Dsiability Representation by a Disabled Author and Writing the Future We Need: Gay and Lesbian Representation." Amazon is showing a red warning text that reads "These keywords violate our community guidelines: lesbian."

an image from an amazon store page for Stars and Soil showing a dagger shattering a crown and the badge for the Indie Ink Awards. Text overlaid reads "2024 Indie Ink Awards Finalist: Writing the Future We Need: Disability Representation by a Disabled Author. Writing the Future We Need: Gay and Lesbian Representation."

July 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM

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Talia "Estro Junkies" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎

@taliabhatt.itch.io

This is the thing no one is willing to fucking say out loud: We live in a world where people accept you're supposed to be miserable. You don't like men? Too bad. Most of us don't like our husbands, honey, but you have to grow up and pop out kids. That's just life.

Except it SHOULDN'T BE.

June 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb

@nkalamb.bsky.social

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.

Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid
IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes

June 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM

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Radical Graffiti

@radicalgraffiti.bsky.social

"Capitalism hates love"
Seen in Valparaiso, Chile

February 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM

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jon ben-menachem

@jbenmenachem.com

I am the richest man in the world. I’m here to fix your government inefficiency by reallocating all federal spending to contracts with my companies

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Feb 13

This is so incredibly, goofily stupid—a slapstick level of dumbass, self-defeating, wasteful procurement even if it’s somehow not as corrupt as it looks—but I suspect absolutely no one is going to prevent it from happening. What an embarrassment. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks

The department plans to buy armored Tesla vehicles. Elon Musk, who is leading efforts to cut government spending, has won more than $13 billion in government contracts in the past five years.

www.nytimes.com

February 13, 2025 at 6:31 AM

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Alejandra Caraballo

@esqueer.net

Never forget the evil of the Nazis and never forgive those who praise or follow their ideology.

Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · Feb 6

6 February 1936 | A German Jewish girl, Rut Mandel, was born in Berlin.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 2 March 1943 in a transport of 1,500 Jews deported from Berlin. She was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.

Vintage black-and-white photo of a young girl in a bow-tied outfit, looking to the side with a bright expression.

February 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM

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Feena van

@feenavan2099.bsky.social

God magneto is so very cool I could watch an entire movie of just magneto brutally murdering bigots like this
youtu.be/wOR9klDNFGM?...

A History Lesson With Magneto | Comic Dub

YouTube video by NerdMarcieVA

youtu.be

February 4, 2025 at 9:28 AM

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A.R. Moxon

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

I wrote about the clarifying power of simple declarations of basic truths and decency; how they show us what we stand for, and how they expose what indecent liars stand for.

Five thoughts on finding our direction in the Republican Party's Nazi America.

www.the-reframe.com/the-bishop-a...

The Bishop and the Billionaire

Five directional thoughts to align ourselves for the fight ahead. Notice direction, fight upward, ladders downward, look inward, grow outward.

www.the-reframe.com

January 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM

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🐝Piper🐝

@jazzguineapig.bsky.social

sieze the means of transition, do diy hrt 💉

January 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)

@theserfstv.bsky.social

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

January 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM

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Gillian Branstetter

@gbbranstetter.bsky.social

But actually

transitioning isn't enough, i need to dismantle the system that has rejected me every step of the way

January 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM

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Alexandra Hamer

@alexandrasaurus.bsky.social

In case you're wondering what "victim blaming" means. This is the Telegraph's take on a trans teenager being stabbed 14 times:

Screenshot from the Telegraph with the following text: "A transgender girl was repeatedly stabbed by a group of masked youths after lying about her gender and then performing a sex act on a boy, a court has heard."

January 16, 2025 at 8:24 AM

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Will Oremus

@willoremus.com

men will literally kill a healthcare ceo instead of going to therapy that they can't afford because it was out of network wait how does this meme go again?

December 18, 2024 at 3:46 PM

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Ancommie 🏴 🏳️‍🌈

@ancommiey.bsky.social

Now what did we learn

Bizarre reason why
McDonald's worker might
not receive $60,000 reward
for identifying Luigi
Mangione
The strict rules could mean the tipster
might not even get a dime

To receive the FBI reward, the McDonald's worker would first have to be
nominated by an involved agency and then be approved through the committee. If
the Secretary of State were to agree, they would then determine how much money
the information provided by the employee is worth, up to but likely not totaling the
$50,000 advertised.

December 10, 2024 at 8:26 PM

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Chad Loder

@chadloder.bsky.social

"they won't stop at trans people" - ok even if they did stop at trans people they still need their ass beat, right?

November 21, 2024 at 7:32 AM

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Ahhhhh

@nerdjpg.com

What is more anxiety provoking than “getting a haircut”

November 23, 2024 at 5:50 PM

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William C.

@williamcson.bsky.social

If you valorize founding fathers that were genocidal rapists, slave owners, and dictators in their own time, naturally, that's going to come back on you. What's happening in the US isn't a departure from values; it's an indictment of what underpins this society.

November 20, 2024 at 6:38 PM