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Blogger, Londoner, socialist, pacifist, uber-lefty, video gamer, and Gozer Worshipper. Currently playing Spider-Man 2. Last played Chernobylite. Feck bigots, LGBTQIA+ Lives Matter. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Go woke or go broke. 👍 Bluesky Elder.
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JD Vance now wants to use the chaos ICE is causing in Los Angeles as pretext to pressure politicians to pass the Republican budget bill that will saddle Americans with trillions of dollars of debt, skyrocket the deficit, take away people’s healthcare, and give massive tax breaks to the wealthy.

Israel has committed genocide for 20 months and this is the absolute strongest consequence Europe is willing to impose upon their colony.

They want us to be too terrified to do anything They didn’t count on us not giving a fuck and doing it anyway

Video of an ICE caravan just ramming people

PLEASE share this update as much as y'all did the first one! Bluesky did NOT fix their violent ableism towards me, and in fact doubled down on their assertion that ableist is a slur.

Video from about an hour ago as less than lethal rounds are being used against protesters in Southern California

*dark muttering* I don't feel that I should have to film acceptance speeches for awards I cannot possibly win, but HERE WE ARE, all dressed up and FANCY to RECORD >:( I am a writer goddammit why should anyone see my face literally ever

LA county is hosting a World Club Championship game next Sunday between PSG and Athletico Madrid. Stephen Miller's crusade either needs to take a pause or there will be an international incident.

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At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

Bryan Angus. Bright Coast, Long Shadows. #Linocut

The ICE attack on the SEIU's David Huerta has me feeling a lot of ways. I don't think this administration realizes that US unions will lock arms and shut this whole shit down. Should have already.

#ShutItDown!!!

ICE isn’t rounding up migrants at Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ meatpacking plants. They're provoking riots in Los Angeles. I wonder, is this provocation laying the groundwork for a pretext to declare martial law? And then I remember all those many tanks shipped to DC, the home of so many protests.

Greetings! A large immigration operation and subsequent protest in Paramount, CA has led to a large amount of gas and “less lethal” munitions. Situation ongoing. Will update as I can.

The Middle East's first Pride event may have been a 1979 protest in Tel Aviv, which also held the region's first Pride parade in 1993. #TEDGames

Daily Quote - June 07, 2025 Introducing people to wild foods in their area is an excellent way to foster their connection to their food. Alexis Nikole Nelson #TEDGames

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

Gangsta pizza, with a terrorist topping! 🙄

Let's have some fun. In this NYT story, we see a picture of an OpenAI billboard on a college campus, suggesting the following prompt: "Give me a guide for mastering this Calc 101 syllabus. In two weeks. Small steps please." What happens when we actually use ChatGPT to do this? THREAD!

Increasingly, Indigenous territories are being targeted for carbon offset schemes. Protected Areas – which usually lead to evictions and violence against local people - are now being justified by claims about their potential to ‘store’ carbon. Act now! svlint.org/BloodCarbon

🔥 A warehouse storing components for Russian drones reportedly caught fire in Azov, Rostov region. The facility, producing plastic parts for drone manufacturing, was significantly damaged.

Sorry but I think I love this site, everything you post on here has a random chance of making someone who by all rights should not be able to use a computer or phone really upset for reasons you could never imagine.

In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of Chinese residents of Rock Springs, Wyoming. The story of the atrocity is still being unearthed 140 years later.

Palestinian photographer Ahmed Qaljah, who worked for Al-Arabiya TV, died Friday from wounds he sustained in Israel’s strike on Gaza City’s al-Ahli Baptist Hospital. The attack also killed journalists Suleiman Hajjaj, Ismail Badah, and Samir al-Rifai, and injured three others.

There had been conflicting claims about his fate, but Palestinian journalist Ahmed Qaljah is now dead from his wounds after #Israel 's attack against journalists at hospital yard in occupied #Palestine 's #Gaza yesterday. bsky.app/profile/drop... #BoycottIsrael #GazaStrip #News #WorldNews

If you're not following my friend @djen4ever.bsky.social also known as Henry Djoutsa on Bluesky -- I met him on a "far away" platform -- you can follow him here! Just follow @djen4ever.bsky.social He's a total trip: tough, takes no B.S. and fast moving!

Armida Abandoned by Rinaldo https://www.artic.edu/artworks/16492/

RFK Jr. in a nutshell: youtube.com/shorts/IY-yA...

The GOP tax bill is incredibly unpopular—with the TOO FEW Americans who have heard about it. Dems must use the Trump-Musk break to spotlight the bill and how it cuts health care & food assistance, cuts taxes for the rich, and increases the deficit by trillions. open.substack.com/pub/messageb...

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

The Transgender Pride flag was created by Monica Helms in 1999 and first flown at a pride parade in Phoenix, Arizona. #TEDGames

As I reported last week the plane carrying the men to South Sudan was still over the Atlantic Ocean when the judge said they had to stay in American custody in any way the government chose to do that…going to Djibouti was definitely a deliberate choice

Daily Quote - June 06, 2025 If you start to look closely enough, you will find opportunities... to give people more than they could ever possibly expect all around you. Will Guidara #TEDGames

I'm fucking furious. Bluesky just removed two more of my lists, one for ableism and another for people who shit on mutual aid. My ableism list isn't even made private, its just completely gone! My disabled ass is now extremely vulnerable to ableist attacks thanks to @safety.bsky.app.

Enough is enough. If your water company is Thames Water I advise you to cancel your direct debit. The only way to resist is by not paying. If they go bust I’m hoping the government can renationalise cheaply.

Trying to convince Trump that Putin is a bad guy is a fool's errand. But Merz deserves points for trying.

my good friend prof kiosk is very close to a milestone 25K ! if you want shitposts of the highest pedigree, give him a follow!

It delights me that this man, Bill Oddie, was once best-known for being part of a three-man comic act called The Goodies, famous in at least the UK and Australia in the 70s and 80s. (I wouldn't look the show up, it hasn't aged well. But this is gorgeous)

"Water is the driving force of all nature." -Leonardo da Vinci till next time💜

Housewife of the Year review: A reminder that Ireland of the 1970s and 80s was no country for women of any age

Just after watching this documentary. Its an absolute gut punch. Incredible stories behind the the women who participated. Really sensitively made about a very different time in Ireland. Highly recommend!

40 years later, and I imagine lots of Americans are feeling exactly the same way today.

OMG you guys, I'm like 20 paid subscribers away from being at the income target I set for myself to be able to afford the move off of Substack! Support independent trans sports journalism & subscribe to my queer sports newsletter & also help me get off the Nazi platform!