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Simon A Corvid (sometimes a bear)
@scrow1022.bsky.social
Writer, artist, seeker. Queer trans man. He/him.
Abolish ICE & police.
On Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi land.
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My mum has been making needle felted mice for a few years and enjoys challenging herself with new themes and ideas. She's just set up her first exhibition at the stately home she volunteers at, with a family of period mice. Incredible.
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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You asked (demanded), and we listened! PCB shirts are back. Preorder here:
www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/tee-sweatshi...
November 14, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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its old as shit but lives in my head. "my waist is snatched, my eyeliner is ON POINT" youtu.be/Kcu7w0uPK4g?...
Weekend Update: Jafar on Ron DeSantis' Attacks on Disney - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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November 14, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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anyway don’t forget, as Bovino moves to Charlotte and everyone freaks out about Epstein, that ICE is very much still in Chicago, that there is real work you yes you can do to help your neighbors right now
November 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Here in Broadview, outside Chicago, a large group of faith leaders & protesters have gathered this morning outside of ICE’s detention center.

This looks like one of the largest protests on Beach St. in weeks, where the city of Broadview is still enforcing a small “free speech” zone. It’s packed.
November 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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I’m getting back to work. You can stay in touch with me at sarahkendzior.substack.com: my newsletter is free.

Finally, please use my suspension to draw attention to other unjustly suspended people including Palestinians attempting to raise awareness of genocide, and the user Link. Thank you.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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What's not to love about an axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum)?

They've got feathery gills, tiny amphibian bodies & happy little faces 😀.

But did you know they're masters of regeneration? Let's talk about why *being cute* and *growing back severed limbs* are, in fact, related.
a small axolotl is walking on a piece of paper .
Alt: a small pink axolotl is smiling at the camera and forcing water over feathery gills in a way that looks like they're smiling with their whole body.
media.tenor.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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the bad news: we are witnessing an ongoing right-wing capture of the media, underscoring the need for a robust system of alternate circulation / the good news: zine distributors are hard at work, strong as ever / here's our guide, available for $4 shop.nonmachinable.com/product/guid...
Guide to Zine Distros by NONMACHINABLE
THIRD EDITION: freshly updated! Our guide to active zine distros and zine-friendly shops around the world. Also available at nonmachinable.com as a...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Fundraiser to support Felix and his family
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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A Chicago attorney filed for a preliminary injunction challenging Broadview's protest restrictions near an ICE facility, arguing time limits violate First Amendment rights for working people.
Lawyer seeking preliminary injunction in lawsuit over protest hours appears outside Broadview ICE facility
chicago.suntimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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There it is

Strike Fund - Starbucks Workers United share.google/pmINaeARKhjK...
Strike Fund - Starbucks Workers United
Starbucks partners are winning this fight because we are united, and customers and allies are standing with us.
share.google
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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A number of local Chicago reporters/journalists have truly distinguished themselves over the past few weeks and I am so very grateful. It also shows that reporting is a public service when done well. Thank you all.
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
@monkeelino.bsky.social @amayna60.bsky.social The 2026 Charco Press books are here! Including a new Claudia Piñeiro!
It's here. Our 2026 Bundle.

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November 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Thinking today how homelessness runs through this story, through Epstein's (Virginia Guiffre had been homeless before meeting him), and even through Gaiman's (his nanny was sleeping on the beach when Palmer recruited her, and he used threats of homelessness against another victim).
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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shocked.
An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today:

ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
November 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Book mail! I have been so enjoying our bonkers November read, Victoria Holt's "On the Night of the Seventh Moon", thought I'd get "The Legend of the Seventh Virgin" as well. Loving these covers too.

(Will probably stop with these, the ones I read as a kid felt unsavory even then. Why push my luck?)
November 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Sasha Lamb's "When the Angels Left the Old Country" - I love this book so much. Its language, queerness/transness, history, religion, immigration. I love the characters and how they relate to each other. I am trying to slow down & savor but also I want to keep reading. #ThursdayBookChat
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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In Ecuador’s Pastaza province, the Kichwa community of Pakayaku has kept 400 km² of Amazon rainforest free from mining, oil and logging through a self-organised guardian force. buff.ly/tmtqu4s
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Indigenous guardians successfully keep extractives out of Ecuador’s Amazon forests
PAKAYAKU TERRITORY, Ecuador — Deep in the heart of Ecuador’s Amazon, where the Bobonaza River winds through ancient forests in Pastaza province, Sacha Gayas spreads out a hand-drawn map across her…
buff.ly
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.

The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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He’s on a mission from God.
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?

It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Summer definitely over in Lincolnwood
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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damnit best i could do is goslings
November 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Sorry for the delay! I stepped out of the house right after posting, but before you commented.

To help immigrants pay their $1500 bond donate to the nonprofit Midwest Immigration Bond Fund. They're affiliated w National Bail Fund Network @bailfundnetwork.bsky.social
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow
November 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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///BREAKING/// Judge Jeffrey Cummings orders that by noon of Nov. 17, he will order the release of all of the 615 "Operation Midway Blitz" detainees identified as class participants (at least those still here in the country) once they pay a $1,500 bond.
November 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM