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WTAF @bsky.app is threatening to flag my account as SPAM!

WTAF (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
The ONLY thing I’ve done “unusual” lately was follow some starter packs of journalists & advocates in the disability, public health/health/MH community which are communities I either belong to or fucking work in.
• Bulk Following/Unfollowing: Excessive following or unfollowing large numbers of accounts • Interaction churn: Repeated following/unfollowing actions to gain engagement • Mention, Quote, or Reply Spam: Frequently mentioning, quoting, or replying to many users • Spam Posting: Sending multiple identical or irrelevant posts This email is a warning: if the pattern of behavior continues, we will label your account as spam. Thank you for doing your part to keep Bluesky a welcoming place for all users. If you have any additional questions or wish to appeal this decision please email moderation@blueskyweb.xyz. Bluesky Moderation Team
November 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Venn diagram of Donald Trump, Monica Lewinsky, Hillary Clinton. Center of the venn diagram is “blue Bill Clinton“. Intersection of Donald Trump and Monica Lewinsky equals “hate Hilary “ Intersection of Monica, Lewinsky and Hillary Clinton is “was in love with Bill”. Intersection of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is “lost an election”.
November 16, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Absolutely wrecked with grief at these two losses.

@leslieleeiii.bsky.social’s Long Covid journey has mirrored my own and for the same length of time.

@sfdirewolf.bsky.social has been a beacon of light, joy, hope, and inspiration for so many of us. She will be deeply missed by her community.
This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
November 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Quality friendship is routinely texting alibi specs as insurance for your future selves.
How long were we at dinner and the movies for during that terrible crime that happened to your ex and/or most hated nemesis—that we know absolutely nothing about?
November 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Nothing that has come out is new.
Such a comedian Donald Trump turned up Monday for a carol sing by a youth choir outside Manhattan's Pluza Hotel. He asked two of the girls how old they were, After they replied they were 14. Trump said, "Wow! Just think—in a couple of years I'll be dating you." From Chicago Tribune wires
November 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Nothing that has come out this week is new.
Such a Comedian: Donald Trump turned up Monday for a carol sing by a youth choir outside Manhattan's Plnza Hotel. Ile asked two of the girls how old they were. Alter they replied they were 14. Trump said, "Wow! Just think-in a couple of years I'll be dating you," From Chicago Tribune wires
November 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Hillary Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, & Donald Trump 👯‍♀️👬🤮
November 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Tag yourself
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Smiling friends seen that has a cartoon doctor standing in front of A levels of pain chart with zero being happy one being neutral to being sad three being a collapsing, sort of exhausted for being unhinged, and five being a demon
November 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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h/t @currentaffairs.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
❧ TRUMP OFFICIALS MOVE ONTO MILITARY BASES. At least six Trump officials have made their primary residence a military base, the Atlantic reported. Among them are White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller, architect of the immigration policy that has seen masked officers disappearing people off the streets. According to the article, the Miller family felt uncomfortable with protesters outside their home calling them Nazis, among other arguably evidence-based accusations. A military base will insulate the Millers, as well Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, from the outrage of the electorate, and provide an extra layer of protection from what administration officials see as a rising threat of political violence. As for the fate of that electorate, the Guardian reported that the National Guard is forming “’a standing National Guard quick reaction force … available for rapid nationwide deployment’ in ’quelling civil disturbances’”—which, as we’ve seen in Chicago in Portland, can simply be a peaceful protest.
November 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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FINISHED!
Mint green and white 107 year old Hoosier cabinet base cabinet with chrome hardware Cabinet with a drawer pulled out to show the pretty blue, red orange and pink floral drawer liners Side of the cabinet has a modern print of Indianapolis in teal blue, green, pink black and white that shows different buildings in Indianapolis and the White River shoreline.
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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I once had an extremely anxious dog that had a yellow bandana that said “Ignore me I’m Nervous” and I often considered buying myself a matching one.
Brindle Formosan Mountain Dog with a pink and purple tongue and a yellow bandana that says “ ignore me. I’m nervous.” in the backseat of a car.
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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@zoonotic1.bsky.social WTAF IS WRONG WITH MY CAT?
He spends 60% of his life eating plastic & 40% searching for water like he lives in the goddamn Sahara desert. 🤦‍♀️
He has a fancy fountain with purified water yet he HAS to drink out of every cup of water that exists anywhere in the house.
Derpy black and white cat with. Green plaid bow tie standing on a bed. Derpy cat sitting on a counter begging like a sickly homeless victorian child.
November 8, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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If You Are Overwhelmed by Attacks on Reproductive Autonomy Renee Bracey Sherman If Injustice Has Alienated You from Your Community Maya Schenwar If You Are a Discouraged Incarcerated Organizer Stevie Wilson If You Are Heartbroken Ashon Crawley. If You Want to Fight Big Tech Brian Merchant If You're Hurting and Want to Find Your People Ash Williams If You're Disabled and Trying to Figure Things Out Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Jane Shi If You Are Fighting Deportations and You're Afraid or Discouraged Aly Wane If You Are Struggling With Grief Tanuja Devi Jagernauth Conclusion: If You're Wounded and Want to Quit Kelly Hayes Relating to the Origin Atena Danner Acknowledgments
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Got my copy in the mail this week! I absolutely love this book and already see it becoming one I gift to friends & loved ones.

Thank you for this critical read @mskellymhayes.bsky.social 🥰
READ THIS WHEN THINGS FALL APART Letters to Activists in Crisis Edited by Kelly Hayes Dear friends, I am writing this note during a terrible time in Chicago. Waves of federal agents are terrorizing Chicagoland, disappearing our neighbors and creating a climate of fear across our communities. Our local hotline for ICE sightings is getting between 250 and 400 calls a day. Our rapid response teams are overworked, and everyone is tired, but people are showing up for each other. Neighbors are forming crowas and getting loud when ICE agents are spotted. Hundreds of people at a time are showing up for workshops and community meetings. Individuals and businesses are delivering groceries to people who are afraid to leave their homes, and local parents are organizing to walk the children of immigrant families to school. Teach-ers, clinicians, baristas, and many others have devised plans about how to respond if ICE shows up. People are organizing. People are practicing care. And people are protesting. As I write these words, there's a plastic bag of my clothes bundled up nearby that I can't mix with the rest of my laundry, because they're contaminated with tear gas and pepper ball residue. I have been protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility, which is the main processing center for "Operation Midway Blitz"-the government's ongoing assault on Chicagoland. It is a site of resistance and refus-al, where people put their bodies on the line to block ICE vehicles and raise their voices against the violence of deportation and detention. We have been attacked indiscriminately, again and again at this location. We have also cared for each other amid these attacks, flushing each other's burning eyes, and passing out KN95s, gas masks and impact resistant goggles. We have also shared moments of political communion-singing together, comforting one another, and holding moments of silent memorial. It's that sense of political communion that I want to address here. These days, I hear people criticize the "effectiveness" of nearly every protest. If an action is artful and … alienated, siloed society, political communion is a jailbreak of the imagination. But solidarity must be cultivated. We must provide people with opportunities to ground themselves in their values. What do they hold sacred? What ao they owe to each other? Whether those questions are explored at a low-risk artful demon-stration, a solemn vigil, or a confrontation with ICE agents, the experience of political communion is essential to our growth, our solidarity, and the cultivation of our collective courage. To be "effective," we must foster transformation. What makes you feel connected? What makes you brave? How can you build a moment that allows others to share those feelings? Such moments won't break us free all at once. Nothing will. But we won't get free without them. We are living in opposition to fascism, which is not only normalized, but a dominant cultural force in our lives. As we build the moments, relationships, and formations we need to navigate these times, I know you will encounter moments like the one we are experiencing in Chicago. Exhaustion, frustration, grief, and so many doubts will crowd your mind as you try to focus on the work in front of you. You will make mistakes, and you may become discouraged. Your pride in your community and your love for your co-strugglers may sustain you, but you will also be haunted by fear, because the people who give you hope are also vulnerable to repression and violence. During such times, it is deeply important to organize and attend events that will help ground you in your sense of purpose, and deepen your bonds with others. I also hope that this book can serve as a resource, in such moments, when it feels like things are falling apart, and that you can turn to the words we've shared here for a bit of comfort and guidance. I am grateful to you for supporting this project, and I hope it inspires you to keep reaching for each other. In spite of all the ways we sometimes disappoint each other, we are each other's best… Letter Directory Read This... Introduction: If You Feel Like You're Falling Kelly Hayes. If You're New and Trying to Find Your Way Mariame Kaba. If You're Witnessing the Unthinkable Eman Abdelhadi If You're Losing and Discouraged Micah Herskind If Someone You Loved Has Killed Themself or Wants to, and Maybe You Want to Too but You Also Want to Survive Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha If You Are Struggling with Your Mental Health Aaron Goggans. If You Are Organizing Outside the Law Brit "Red" Schulte If You've Been Assaulted (I Believe You) Leanne Betasamosake Simpson If You're a Parent Feeling Isolated Atena Danner If You Are Panicking About Collapse Chris Begley If You Want to Defeat Fascism Shane Burley
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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qasimrashid = © 6/24/25 If Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC mayor at the age of 33 it will be a death blow to millions of young south Asian men in this country. Every desi parent is gonna be like, "Zohran was Mayor of New York City at 33! You haven't even bought a house yet! Why can't you be more like him?!?" Ohhhh dark days ahead for south Asian men. Smh.
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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If someone slips liquid LSD into your drink at a square dance... You've been dosey-dosed.
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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I’ll have to look them up!

I’ve been eyeing these sparkly sexy rainbow beauties from Betsey Johnson for way too long…
About this item Rhinestone Embellished Upper Low Top Sneaker 1" Platform If between sizes, it is recommended to size up. Lace-Up Closure Description Betsey Johnson's SIDNY is a stand out sneaker! This all over rhinestone sneaker, featuring a platform sole and lace up closure, can be paired with your best dress or favorite jeans!
November 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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🤘 Meeting cool people with EDS/hEDS in Michigan and am super excited to start making connections with people in my new state!
November 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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October book drop from @pmpress.bsky.social! 🤘🥹

The playlist this month is fantastic as well (as usual).
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THE GENERAL'S SON JOURNEY OF AN ISRAELI IN PALESTINE TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION MIKO PELED FOREWORD BY ALICE WALKER BE GAY DO CRIME Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion Edited by Zane McNeill, Riley Clare Valentine, and Blu Bochanan Fortword by Cindy Barukh Milstein FEARLESS BENJAMIN THE QUAKER DWARE WHO FOUGHT SLAVERY by Michelle Markel and Marcus Rediker illustrated by Sarah Bachman
October 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Got a great kids book in my October book shipment from @pmpress.bsky.social. I’ll definitely be buying copies for the kids in my family for Christmas this year.
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LEARLESS BENJAMIN THE QUAKER D WARF WHO FOUCHT SLAVERY by Michelle Markel and Marcus Rediker illustrated by Sarah Bachman FEARLESS BENJAMIN tells the story of a courageous little person, only four feet tall, who fought slavery at a time when almost everyone else accepted it. A shepherd, a sailor, and a Quaker, Benjamin Lay insisted that all people, of all nations and races around the world, were equal. Every human being rich and poor, man and women, Black and white deserved respect, love, and freedom. When he protested against his fellow Quakers for enslaving others in violation of the golden rule, "do unto others as you would have them do unto you," they banished him from the Quaker meeting. When they ridiculed his small body, he stood up to their prejudice and proclaimed the truth of human decency. He boycotted all products made by the labor of enslaved people. He spoke out bravely against cruelty and oppression. He lived a life of peace, tolerance, and brotherly love. A man far ahead of his time, he proved to be right in the long run, as Quakers and others eventually joined him in opposing human bondage. Benjamin Lay's remarkable life story can be a lesson in courage and hope for all of us. BENJAMIN LAY was a shepherd, a sailor, a Quaker, a little person, and one of the world's first opponents of human bondage, far ahead of his time. ISBN: 979-8-88744-140-5 $19.95 pmpress.org 9798887 441405
October 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Buy yourself some of this and a big container of vanilla bean ice cream. You will not regret it.
SHANKY’S WHIP MADE IN IRELAND *BLACK & SMOOTH & IRISH Spirits distilled from whey with natural flavors Carmel color.
October 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Santifa
Bunch of miniature plastic ducks that are beige and white assembled behind a group of yellow plastic ducks with santa hats. Facing an army of ducks in rainbow colors.
October 25, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Found another fascist to block
Little Sheba @littlesheba.bsky.social Nick Sortor @nicksortor • 11h 7m WATCH: Antifa rioters throw exploding munitions and tear gas at DHS agents who are attempting to clear the driveway in front of ICE Portland Don't let the left lie to you: THIS IS A WARZONE. We need National Guard NOW! 0:28
October 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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New @archiemcphee.bsky.social catalog just arrived and there are some great new additions and old favorites. But the Fidget Intestines is the BEST new item they sell. (👀 @kavehmd.bsky.social!)
FIDGET INTESTINES We've all had times when it felt like we had a gurgle in our guts that needed to be worked out, why not turn that idea into a fidget toy? Fidget Intestines let you turn IBS into R&R. It's a 6½" x 7½" set of vinyl intestines filled with squishable liquid and food shaped confetti! Great gift for your favorite stressed-out gastroenterologist. 13113. $8.95 ea. SQUISH MY GUTS! ORDER ON MCPHEE.COM
October 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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I love that Sammy Terry’s son has continued his legacy. 🥹
Sammy Terry is a television horror host based in Indianapolis, Indiana. The role was originated by Robert "Bob" Carter in 1962, and Carter's son Mark Carter took over the role from his father in 2010. Bob Carter was a television personality who appeared mostly on Indianapolis local television station WTTV, regularly during the 1960s and 1970s, and sporadically through the late 1980s
October 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM