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Ilocano-Ilonggo 🇵🇭🇮🇪🇦🇹 on Dena’ina land. Alaska resident documentarian: 🎥/📸/✍🏼. I tell stories and build community. Cofounder of Mana, preserving 235 years of Filipino Alaskan history: https://www.manaalaska.com/ (Personal account)
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Banning Huxley cuz a little shade. Wow bro.

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

This is a hell of a crowd size for a protest at the Treasury Department. People do not like Elon.

Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:

I will be thinking about this tweet for the next four years

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's *adolescent* energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...

how is it not violent for the medical system to charge sexual assault survivors ~$4000 for emergency room visits, per this study from 2022 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

UnitedHealth CEO sent employees a memo yesterday (leaked to me) listing anonymous statements of support for the company.

Modern Cyrano de Bergerac retelling where Roxanne is in love with CEO Hitman but has mistaken Hung Smile Dude for him.

December 4th: “we’re not covering your anesthesia good luck with surgery lol.” December 5th: “Hey baby we got you some fresh sheets right out of the dryer. Warm and cozy. And here’s a pillow for your head don’t want you waking up with a headache now do we.”

NYPD: he is assumed to be extremely dangerous, carries himself like a true professional, with a confident stance, and a disarming smile.

“Hey chatters, breaking thru the blockade today to vote down martial law.”

Customizable feeds have me excited for Bluesky’s potential. Sometimes I wanna step away from the algorithm and get more control and that and lists and starter packs allow a user experience more akin to MySpace or an early gaming mod community than Threads or Twitter.

Lying facedown on the pavement outside the ruins of a TOYS”R”US, remembering the Black Fridays of my youth.

Do you think one week of following entitles you to plow through the riches of my Emersonian mind?

Threads greatest shortcoming was failing to fulfill the promise of an app that throws spaghetti noodle shaped posts at you.

Starting a fight over this so there’s no time for politics.

It’s giving needy.

Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont... It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.

Videogame with an Arachnophobia setting that adds more spiders

20 years ago Star Wars and Wicked had it all figured out.

Social media is in desperate need of innovation. Meta is only letting you have a slice of control over what you see because Bluesky is here building for you.

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Captcha: select all squares with cup

Anyone else still thinking about the X-Files toilet monster?

JIGSAW: all your life you've really drowned people to death in urine by being late all the time VICTIM: boy I don't like where this is going

An Alaska village sinking in ocean bc climate change still has residents. Officials forgot to set up voting there. This woman flew there on a small plane last minute to set up vote-by-fax. Here, she is radioing village to bring their ballots. (Great story—read to end: boltsmag.org/alaska-measu...)

The replies are all “a soul” but plz respect you not being raised w/a silver spoon have skillsets the avg billionaire couldn’t. They don’t fix their cars, boil their pasta, renovate their homes, or live subsistence. They don’t make anything. You have skills, they outsource skill and claim competence

Writing off books, too many bad experiences.

Does anyone else feel the urge to text their parents after every episode of A Man On The Inside? (Still skipping Thanksgiving this year)

I can’t w/ how ashamed modern film musicals are to be musicals. In contrast, Wicked (2024) has a number where munchkins at Shiz U dance in a library sliding from one end of a rotating bookcase tunnel to the other while Prince Fiyero does the splits on a spinning ladder, singing about staying stupid.

“Nice.”