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Ray King

@redblackmetal.bsky.social

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Composer for Dysthymia
https://dysthymiaband.bandcamp.com/

Bass Player for Heaven Through Violence
https://heaventhroughviolence.bandcamp.com/

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Ray King

@redblackmetal.bsky.social

Berlin trip photo dump #1

Soviet WW2 in Treptower Park

August 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM

Ray King

@redblackmetal.bsky.social

Berlin is pretty cool.

August 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM

Ray King

@redblackmetal.bsky.social

*chef's kiss*

Stella Claus I Guess @antlervel.vet · Jun 25

"Andrew Cuomo is visibly upset and people are crying"

June 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM

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no bonzo

@nobonzo.bsky.social

fight the cops
de-arrest your friends

A decorative illustration of a black bloc and a de-arrest.
At the bottom of the image, a riot cop is attempting to arrest a blocced figure. An person flies through the air to kick the cop and two comrades run up to pull away the arestee. In the middle two figures on each side throw tear gas cannisters back and a riot dog runs in the middle of them. The top has a large group of people in bloc, many of whom carry black flags. Everything is surrounded by tear gas.

June 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM

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Prem Thakker ツ

@premthakker.bsky.social

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

June 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM

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no bonzo

@nobonzo.bsky.social

Ffs throwing bricks at the people kidnapping toddlers at potential great personal cost is mutual aid

June 8, 2025 at 5:57 AM

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boda-charga.bsky.social

@boda-charga.bsky.social

The liberal discourse around the Houthi PC Small Group signal chat leak is insane. They're more concerned about getting a dunk than highlighting the actual war crimes committed by the administration. 50+ innocent civilians were killed to get ONE PERSON. But hey, as long as you get your "dunk". 🙄

March 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM

Ray King

@redblackmetal.bsky.social

Can't wait for Gen Z and Alpha to start actually googling Bobby Liebling.

March 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM

Ray King

@redblackmetal.bsky.social

First Heaven Through Violence tour is in the bag

February 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM

Ray King

@redblackmetal.bsky.social

Just a reminder that despite what you may have heard recently, the revolution will, in actual fact, not be televised.

February 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM

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Al Jazeera English

@aljazeera.com

"We don't want to leave, not even for a moment."

This Palestinian woman returned to the Jenin refugee camp where homes were forcibly demolished as Israel continued its deadly raids across the occupied West Bank.

February 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM

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jay 🦇🏴🇵🇸

@wildeatheart.bsky.social

The unionized staff of the Boston Public Library need your help! A member of the Boston Public Library Professional Staff Union, Eve, had her request to withdraw hours from the sick bank denied by Boston Public Library management. Sign the petition at bit.ly/sickbankpetition
to add your name!

Petition against the denial of an approved withdrawal from PSA's Extended Sick Leave Fund

The BPL Professional Staff Association has successfully managed our Extended Sick Leave Fund ("sick bank") since its inception. Members donate one, two, or three days worth of hours each year to the b...

bit.ly

January 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM

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Phil Lewis

@phillewis.bsky.social

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors

Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together.

I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller

I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country

I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian.

So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last.

You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.

You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid.

They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else.

Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.

Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs.

My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete.

You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us.

Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered.

I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA,

Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness.

FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY.

I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same.

Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world

January 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM

Ray King

@redblackmetal.bsky.social

Going a quick run with Heaven Through Violence in a couple weeks. See ya out there sadbois.

January 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM

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Tumultuous Ruin

@tumultuousruin.bsky.social

This appears to apply to those of us that are documented immigrants but non-citizens. Reminiscent of the Anarchist Exclusion Act of the early 1900s which is technically still on the books and upheld by scotus. It’s how Emma Goldman got deported. They only want the well-behaved immigrants. Fuck that!