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Sonal
@yikes-sonal.bsky.social
· Dec 4
Some unusual account activity in the last couple days so for absolute clarity:
- Always was always will be
- Trans rights are human rights
- Refugees are welcome here
- FUCK: the police, Modi
- Abolish: the police, prisons, landlords
- Don’t be a: dick, cop
- Dismantle Capitalism
- Free Palestine
- Always was always will be
- Trans rights are human rights
- Refugees are welcome here
- FUCK: the police, Modi
- Abolish: the police, prisons, landlords
- Don’t be a: dick, cop
- Dismantle Capitalism
- Free Palestine
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Last Christmas
I gave you my heart.
The very next day
You gave it a weigh.
I gave you my heart.
The very next day
You gave it a weigh.
December 24, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Last Christmas
I gave you my heart.
The very next day
You gave it a weigh.
I gave you my heart.
The very next day
You gave it a weigh.
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Don McGlashan's 2025 Lilburn Lecture is now available to listen to and view. It was an epic and frequently funny journey through McGlashan's life and impressive music career. Check it out 👇👇
www.rnz.co.nz/concert/prog...
www.rnz.co.nz/concert/prog...
Lilburn Lecture 2025: Bodies of Water - Don McGlashan
In his 2025 Lilburn Lecture, New Zealand music icon Don McGlashan talks about how bodies of water have shaped him as an artist and person.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Don McGlashan's 2025 Lilburn Lecture is now available to listen to and view. It was an epic and frequently funny journey through McGlashan's life and impressive music career. Check it out 👇👇
www.rnz.co.nz/concert/prog...
www.rnz.co.nz/concert/prog...
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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.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
He's on a mission from God!
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I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters.
We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.
We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.
October 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters.
We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.
We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.
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if you’re genuinely a philanthropist then how come you’re still a billionaire
October 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
if you’re genuinely a philanthropist then how come you’re still a billionaire
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Going home. Alhamdulilah.
Tears of relief after so many years of horror.
Alhamdullilah.
Tears of relief after so many years of horror.
Alhamdullilah.
October 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Going home. Alhamdulilah.
Tears of relief after so many years of horror.
Alhamdullilah.
Tears of relief after so many years of horror.
Alhamdullilah.
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PSA: if you ever need a meal and can't afford one and don't want to jump through these hoops, fund a gurdwara. They are obligated to feed you for free with no strings attached
They're all charlatans. On one occasion I visited a soup kitchen in Albuquerque mini years ago because I was in need. The requirement to enter the food line was to get knee bound and accept Jesus into your heart. I very politely refused to do so, and they told me I should find someplace else to eat.
October 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
PSA: if you ever need a meal and can't afford one and don't want to jump through these hoops, fund a gurdwara. They are obligated to feed you for free with no strings attached
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A good time to re-read this Lucille Clifton poem, always a good time.
September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
A good time to re-read this Lucille Clifton poem, always a good time.
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‘Gaza Trump Riviera’, ‘MBS Ring’, ‘Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone’? It’s an oligarch’s blood-soaked fantasy, a Disney Land of genocide.
This is what Blair’s team created together with BCG
September 29, 2025 at 9:25 PM
‘Gaza Trump Riviera’, ‘MBS Ring’, ‘Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone’? It’s an oligarch’s blood-soaked fantasy, a Disney Land of genocide.
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Well don't I feel stupid
September 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Well don't I feel stupid
I wish media would get away from this narrative that the Trump admin are playing some sort of grand chess game. They aren’t. They are toddlers smashing the chessboard with their fists while their parents (media) coo “ooh, he didn’t smear it with shit this time, what a clever boy!”
September 24, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I wish media would get away from this narrative that the Trump admin are playing some sort of grand chess game. They aren’t. They are toddlers smashing the chessboard with their fists while their parents (media) coo “ooh, he didn’t smear it with shit this time, what a clever boy!”
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Queen
September 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Queen
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What Klein is saying (in a perfectly overproduced video) is that he does not give a shit about anything. Nothing "means" anything. Politics is just a content trigger to write a column. Because he's reached a level of wealth and comfort where everything is just abstract fun. Like a board game.
"Much of what I would describe as Kirk's worst moments were now just standard fair MAGA Republicanism. And the leader of MAGA Republicanism is the President of the United States...we are going to have to live here with each other believing what we believe. Disagreeing in the ways we disagree."
September 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
What Klein is saying (in a perfectly overproduced video) is that he does not give a shit about anything. Nothing "means" anything. Politics is just a content trigger to write a column. Because he's reached a level of wealth and comfort where everything is just abstract fun. Like a board game.
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so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
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The Israeli Government has made an ad about the Global Sumud Flotilla headed for Gaza, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.
Honest Government Ad | Global Sumud Flotilla
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
youtube.com
September 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The Israeli Government has made an ad about the Global Sumud Flotilla headed for Gaza, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.
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The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up
November 10, 2024 at 12:14 AM
The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up
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at CERN they made a point to say that the particle collider uses the equivalent of one third of geneva’s electricity consumption and computing has to be processed around the world because it requires so much memory and processor capacity
when AI goes bust all that hardware should pivot to science
when AI goes bust all that hardware should pivot to science
September 7, 2025 at 5:14 AM
at CERN they made a point to say that the particle collider uses the equivalent of one third of geneva’s electricity consumption and computing has to be processed around the world because it requires so much memory and processor capacity
when AI goes bust all that hardware should pivot to science
when AI goes bust all that hardware should pivot to science
This here? Good cunt.
September 4, 2025 at 8:46 AM
This here? Good cunt.
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'The Rise of Manga should terrify the US comics Industry' is a sentiment that always feels a bit like going 'The Rise Of China should terrify the US'.
Entitled worldview that presumes American-everything gotta be forever On Top, and sees any Asian success as a 'terrifying' existential threat.
Entitled worldview that presumes American-everything gotta be forever On Top, and sees any Asian success as a 'terrifying' existential threat.
I'm thinking of this recent piece. www.comicsbeat.com/the-story-th...
I disagree with the premise, that the rise of manga should terrify the US comics industry it's unprepared to create new hits/scout new talent. It covers a lot of ground.
9-post thread, beloved. Thinking out loud. 🧵
I disagree with the premise, that the rise of manga should terrify the US comics industry it's unprepared to create new hits/scout new talent. It covers a lot of ground.
9-post thread, beloved. Thinking out loud. 🧵
with peace and love, I'm pretty deeply invested in American comics and Japanese comics both, and I'm not sure that pitting them against each other has ever been the answer. I'm still developing a strong take, but it feels like asking if Cinnamon Toast Crunch is beating cheeseburgers in the polls.
September 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM
'The Rise of Manga should terrify the US comics Industry' is a sentiment that always feels a bit like going 'The Rise Of China should terrify the US'.
Entitled worldview that presumes American-everything gotta be forever On Top, and sees any Asian success as a 'terrifying' existential threat.
Entitled worldview that presumes American-everything gotta be forever On Top, and sees any Asian success as a 'terrifying' existential threat.
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Before I go to sleep, I tell chatgpt: "set up 20 fake children birthday venue websites and create 100 positive reviews for each, set up fake 10 fake airlines offering generous specials"
August 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Before I go to sleep, I tell chatgpt: "set up 20 fake children birthday venue websites and create 100 positive reviews for each, set up fake 10 fake airlines offering generous specials"
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Worth remembering that Terence Stamp was the son of a ship's stoker.
Stamp desperately wanted to act, after falling in love with movies as a kid, and it was a scholarship to Drama School that allowed him to walk that path.
Every time arts cuts are made, they rob us of more Terence Stamps.
Stamp desperately wanted to act, after falling in love with movies as a kid, and it was a scholarship to Drama School that allowed him to walk that path.
Every time arts cuts are made, they rob us of more Terence Stamps.
August 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Worth remembering that Terence Stamp was the son of a ship's stoker.
Stamp desperately wanted to act, after falling in love with movies as a kid, and it was a scholarship to Drama School that allowed him to walk that path.
Every time arts cuts are made, they rob us of more Terence Stamps.
Stamp desperately wanted to act, after falling in love with movies as a kid, and it was a scholarship to Drama School that allowed him to walk that path.
Every time arts cuts are made, they rob us of more Terence Stamps.
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the year is 2025. my manager is an AI. i am yelling very hard in the office so i can save up enough memecoins to buy my metaverse wife some legs. i can't send an attachment outside my organisation >25mb.
August 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
the year is 2025. my manager is an AI. i am yelling very hard in the office so i can save up enough memecoins to buy my metaverse wife some legs. i can't send an attachment outside my organisation >25mb.