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jacy
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she/her • 25+ • SoCal • ENG/中文 • 鄉民 •開心就好 !
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wwxwashere.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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azureskysm.bsky.social
The writers very obvious very cool and awesome fetishes
November 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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cmmcat.bsky.social
Every year I share this work with my students. We read it aloud.
November 27, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
you can frame the European-American differences in a lot of ways but 'Europeans are poorer than Americans but also more secure' is probably the fairest one. American life is richer in many, many ways, and also far more dependent on your job *and your family* than European life.
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
there are a ton of different quality of life indexes but the United States generally sits squarely in the middle of the pack of developed nations, which is about what you'd expect from a very rich country with a poor social security net.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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yaelwrites.com
Avoiding public WiFi, QR codes, or public USB chargers doesn’t prevent you from being hacked. Happy to sign onto this open letter alongside 80+ cybersecurity veterans urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. www.hacklore.org
whimsical digital illustration
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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johnryanwrites.bsky.social
*taps sign*
A sign saying "I'm not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it."
September 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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hawkspy.bsky.social
아기매
November 15, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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nemialmasy.bsky.social
If you ever question if your fanfic is too self indulgent please remember that’s actually the point of fanfiction
November 6, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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cait.bsky.social
happy trans day of remembrance. you are beautifully and wonderfully made and I will never stop fighting for you. the world is better because you are in it
November 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
convenience beats security 95 percent of the time even for people who should have good reason to be worried about security
November 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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whitneytrettien.bsky.social
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
Full-color image of the Cathedral of Barcelona, composed on a typewriter by Montserrat Alberich Escardívol. Image from WikiMedia.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
this is a very nice piece.

“It’s such a beautiful culture,” she added, a hint of sadness in her voice as the day came to an end. “I really, really truly love my friends, and I wish that more people were willing to be friends with them.”
texasobserver.org Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 20d
In our magazine: After a hate incident, about 100 trans and gender nonbinary people flooded the spillway of Austin's most popular swimming spot to celebrate queer joy and show that they won't back down.
At Barton Springs, Trans Existence Becomes Resistance
Following a transphobic incident earlier this year, community members gathered to "protect trans joy."
www.texasobserver.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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redoubters.bsky.social
Whatever truths there might be in that your average white Union soldier grunt was A) probably still pretty racist B) likely didn't start as a committed abolitionist

there are *plenty* of stories of them getting radicalized as they entered the South and saw the reality of it and went "oh FUCK this"
November 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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dfarnitano.bsky.social
“I’ll fight until hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on”
post by @jamellebouie.net from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over" Nothing made slavery's toxicity more obvious to Union troops than its effect on the fundamental unit of society, the family. For one thing, slave sales separated families. In the Upper South, where many Union soldiers were stationed in 1861, about one in three first marriages was broken by sale, and about half of all slave children were separated from at least one parent. 129 With their own eyes, soldiers saw slavery snap bonds between parents and children. The men of the Seventh Wisconsin were awakened by gunshots one November night. The following day, soldiers "learned, and saw the cause of the alarm in the form of two negro women—a mother and a daughter." The pair had fled to Union lines to avoid the proposed sale of the "goodlooking" daughter into the so-called fancy trade, which soldiers viewed as a form of concubinage. Outraged by the plight and moved by the vulnerability of the mother and daughter, "every private in the ranks" cursed "that system which tramples on the honor of man, and makes merchandise of the virtue of women," according to one member of the regiment. 130 When an Iowan encountered a young child about to be sold by her own father, who was also her master, he vowed, "By G-d I'll fight till hell freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on."
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social
Taiwan hosts the 2025 World #Indigenous Traditional Games next month! First Nation athletes will compete alongside Indigenous Formosans in 10 events:

• Archery
• Music/Dance
• Log Sawing
• Wrestling
• Net Casting
• Canoe Racing
• Road Running
• Weight Carrying Relay
• Freediving Sprint
• Tug of War
https://www.facebook.com/61583551435322/
November 18, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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patrickwyman.bsky.social
You can't live your life based on hate - that way lies madness and bitterness - but allowing yourself to slip into hater mode from time to time is a lovely little treat, like a drunk cigarette or a decadent slice of cake
November 9, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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cmonstah.bsky.social
Hey you guys, @lataco.bsky.social has been doing ESSENTIAL work covering ICE raids and the ways in which they are tearing at the fabric of our communities. Now they are having a membership drive. If you want to support their work, pitch in here:
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November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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aicasianart.bsky.social
Bottle-Shaped Vase https://www.artic.edu/artworks/18454/
Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection
November 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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willquinnart.bsky.social
Daily bunny no.3130 didn't separate their laundry
A bunny is holding up a sock from a basket of laundry, just gotten out of the washing machine. The sock as well as the other laundry is stained pink. There is also a pink-dyed bunny in the laundry basket
November 6, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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renemagritte.bsky.social
The heartstrings - 1960
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/20290
cat: 915
November 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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chowleen.bsky.social
Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":

「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」

-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
For Zohran, You teach us how to engage the world in difficult times. May you inspire many and blaze a trail! It’s like a path across the land—it’s not there to begin with, but when lots of people go the same way, it comes into being. —Lu Hsun, “Hometown” From the dedication page of Mamdani, Mahmood, "Neither Settler nor Native : The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities," Harvard University Press, 2020
June 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
I'm doing more research on Direct File, interviewing people who worked on the project. Cancelling it is just an incredible own goal, not just because it allowed people to pay taxes for free, but because it was an incredible demonstration that government could build top quality tech products in-house
Once Direct File reached its full stride, it was estimated to save about $11 billion per year for taxpayers (an average of $160 per user) and help unlock about $12 billion in government benefits that those taxpayers were eligible for. The Direct File cost was relatively small, about about $32 million to get it going. This is peanuts compared to the billions that are often wasted on government tech projects that deliver little. One analysis found that it delivered about $106 in value for every dollar invested. Users loved Direct File. In 2024, 86% of users said it increased their trust in IRS, not the most beloved of organizations. The Direct File “net promoter score” (a measure of customer satisfaction and loyalty) is 84, well above that of TurboTax, and even Apple. In user surveys conducted by Code for America, 94% prefer Direct File and state equivalents to their previous filing method and 84% said they were “very satisfiedˮwith another 14% being “satisfied” with the product. Direct File expanded the tax filing pool. Over time, the federal government has shifted more and more of the safety net to the tax system, primarily via the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit. One problem is that people with very low incomes are not obliged to file, even when it’s in their interest to do so. By being truly free, Direct File captured some of those people. About 1 in 4 of Direct File users were non-filers the previous year, a much higher rate than any other filing alternative.
November 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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cabalittle.bsky.social
Bluesky rn
The Dimitri finds out meme, which is a two panel vertical meme of a guy being interviewed by a lady. The caption reads "The club is bumping, the ladies look good, the alcohol is flowing." The second caption reads "There is much pain in the world, but not in this room."
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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shaydh.bsky.social
Everyone saying "make weird art!" you better fucking mean it. There better not be an unspoken "but not too weird" tacked on at the end.
January 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM