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Gin✊🏽

@tatakaegin.bsky.social

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Student, USMC Infantry Vet, Bartender, Writer of little significance,

I don’t have pronouns, simply do not refer to me (he/him)

Vehemently Anti-Fascist. Biracial - Black First✊🏽

True liberation means liberation for us all.

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Gin✊🏽

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as soon as that one coworker butts in the conversation

September 19, 2025 at 4:17 AM

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Some mid-week motivation - Solidarity is going to take us there. Know this, tyranny will not stand in the way of our future, and we will pave the way.

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#poem #blacksky #promosky
#resist #writer

If I were to tell you that
you can survive without oxygen;
would you exist in apnea?

That you could jump off the edge
& fly to the sun;
would you soar to the cosmos?

That you could lift up the world
& carry her somewhere new;
would you stand with vigor & take
her far away?

Well; you can.

You can live with the fortitude
& warmth of your beloved.

You can shoot for the stars
and conquer your conflicts.

& you can rise to the occasion;
as the light that guides us back
to shore.

- It’ll take some courage, clenched
fists & teeth grit, but i’ll be
right beside you so please

Don’t Quit.

-Gin

December 4, 2024 at 11:12 PM

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A new one in the wake of grief showing her face once again- a reminder that love and grief exist on the same spectrum; filling spaces the other leaves behind. I hope you enjoy

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#poem #blacksky #promosky
#love #grief

- When love left & grief came; i knew her not but by her name

- She whispered softly in my ear; “i see it in your heart, you’ve lost someone dear”

- My heart stood still as I sunk to the floor; begging my love for one second more

- Grief hushed my cries, as loving as a friend; “your love is not gone, she’s held close within”

- To love is to understand that you will grieve; to love is to understand it’s your reprieve

-Gin

*Side note; for my grandfather -

Farewell Pop-pop, I’ll miss you so much. Get some rest now, you’ve earned it.

December 3, 2024 at 6:28 PM

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30 songs in 30 days -2/30

Supervillain by Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes

If you haven’t ever heard of this band, I highly recommend them. Alt text is active - using it to describe the feelings this song evokes and what it means to me

#promosky #music #art

Supervillain by Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes is a song that I stumbled upon during the end of my relationship with my favorite ex.

I knew things were going towards us breaking up, and because of that I leaned into songs that made me feel the resentment that I held for my partner at the time. This song song exists, for me, to stroke the ego, in leaning into nonchalant energy.

It helps me to recognize that the bad i’ve brought into relationships isn’t the end of the world, and that sometimes it just better to be the bad guy and end things so that I can work through my own demons.

I believe that we can work on ourselves in relationships, but sometimes they don’t work out - this song awakens that realization that just because i’ve done bad things in this, that doesn’t make me a bad person. I can cut my losses and learn and grow from the experience, so that I can be better all around.

Thanks for reading, I hope you take a listen - let me know what you think in the comments:)

November 27, 2024 at 10:18 PM

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30 songs on 30 days - this is just something i’m doing to
share my musical taste. i feel like music is a way to really speak to someone’s soul - and i’d like to share mine with you.

I’ll be elaborating on what the songs mean to me in the alt text, thanks for reading:)

#promosky #blacksky #art

So, if I remember correctly, I found this song when I was going through a very rough time in my life. I was growing and learning and failing, and having a hard time coping with it all.

— this song evokes feelings of tenacity in me. Like all the pieces have been played, and though it’s tough, i still press on. It makes me have faith in my own ability, despite his mentioning of the lord in this song. I’m not religious, but I do have faith; in myself, and the people I surround myself with.

It’s beautifully written, and it takes me to the mountains. With cold air and frosted peaks, this song truly speaks to the innermost part of me - i hope you take a listen, and i hope you enjoy!

November 27, 2024 at 6:05 AM

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inauguration day decorations are so cute🥰🥰

This thing whispers to me like the green goblin mask, it’s so hungry, starving for the sweet sweet flesh of a billionaire

November 27, 2024 at 5:46 AM

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Good Dreams

Putting to words the hope i have for us - It takes a dreamer to change the world, and i think there’s a dreamer in all of us. Let’s change the future, together.

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#blacksky #resist #antifa #poetry #shortpoem #writer
#veteran

Hours spent dreaming of
something new. A new world with
new faces; Joy littered all around
me as if a good witch cast a spell of
serendipity

We sing hymns to our salvation;
hands interlocked as the voice of liberty guides our dance. We sway together
in this unknown union; A new community of doers and dreamers, beckoning for a world just like this

— Time spent dreaming of a new
tomorrow gives me visions of a future worth living for. My dreams art art, imitating a world gone mad - cause crazy are the ones who dream tomorrow anew, and i’m crazy enough to dream of that too

- Gin

November 26, 2024 at 9:45 PM

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immediately thought of this from Django

November 26, 2024 at 9:17 PM

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#promosky
Hello all, I go by Gin and these are my interests

-Resisting fascism
-supporting my people
-writing/poetry
-fitness
-gaming(sometimes)
-daydreaming
-punching nazis on the jaw
-bartending/cocktail design
-Music (alt,hiphop,punk)
-my glorious prince Rooster(my cat

Thank you friends:)

November 26, 2024 at 7:41 PM

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On Tyranny -Timothy Snyder

#19 - Be A Patriot

As someone who served, I take this part very personally. What that man has done to this country is a bastardization of the sacrifice men and women have made so that we can enjoy our rights and freedoms.

#resist #blacksky #antifascist #veteran

November 26, 2024 at 7:21 PM

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ope and look at that, someone stuck Lesson Number Two in there

November 26, 2024 at 6:25 AM

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Simone Weil🖤 - this is empathy in is purest form; to put oneself in another’s shoes takes a little bit of intelligence, and a little bit of courage; but it will change the way you view the world

#promosky #blacksky #poetry

November 26, 2024 at 5:32 AM

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(prisons and prison camps also count as slavery idgaf what the 13th amendment says)

November 24, 2024 at 7:54 PM

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Another good read (IYKYK)

#books #resist #antifascist

November 24, 2024 at 7:48 PM

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this is Rooster - the best thing that ever happened to me

November 24, 2024 at 7:35 PM

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Be as courageous as you can - something i say to myself every day now. I may be scared, but that matters not - even if it cost me my life; I WILL LIVE

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#poetry #blacksky #poem #resist #ontyranny #veteran #antifascist

On Tyranny —

#20 - Be as courageous as you can

From my perspective; that
mean going out of my way for
others. That means finding
ways to support your communities
and sharing those

— That means being the light you
wish to see. That means taking
the first step, even if it’s not popular;
making the first move, despite the odds

It means that we cannot
sit idly by while they strip us of everything

- Be as courageous as you can; and demand better

- Gin

November 24, 2024 at 12:26 AM

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i got it on me

November 23, 2024 at 6:00 PM

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Do we hate this garnish?

This is a Lemoncello Martini with Lillet Blanc

November 21, 2024 at 6:20 AM

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Reaffirmations; You’ve won all of your past battles, why would this one be any different?

Even if you don’t interact, i hope you enjoy reading
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#blacksky #shortpoem #poem #resist #lgbt

I have known struggle; I have slept in holes; i have low crawled through mud; i have done burpees til i could no longer breath

I have been beaten down; both literally and figuratively. I have been close to death; more than once. I have been trampled all over; and yet i ascend

I have been through the worst life could throw at me; still i pressed on - and I have trudged through every storm that has wandered my way

— that is why i know; that even know i have been through hell,

I have what it takes to get to heaven

-Gin

November 20, 2024 at 6:25 AM

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lmao nice

November 19, 2024 at 3:14 AM

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Living, for me —

I’ve felt so much hope and inspiration in moments; moments that i hope i can share with all of you

#blacksky #poetry #resist #hope #shortpoem
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