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Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

submitted 315 days ago • 785 comments

Queer Palestinian singer Bashar Murad for Vogue Japan. He wears an "Intifada Obi", which includes embroideries made by Gazan refugee women, supported by a collective that preserve Palestinian embroidery in kimono designs. My favorite songs from him are "Mashkara" and "Antenne". 📷: Hiroshi Asakura

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

Ooo handy. And only a little passive aggressive when I send it to someone... whn.global/yes-we-conti... #covid #respirator #maskup #pandemic #clinicallyvulnerable #novid #covid19

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Just a for funsies game. Maybe this means that my love life results in much inner growth as I and my partner(s) learn to understand ourselves as individuals. In this way, we can come together to have a better understanding of each other.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Not my coming up with more Infinity Nikki fanfic ideas because my first idea is too het-normative. Need more sapphic fun.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Queer folks: Get legal documents in order to insure that the people you trust are making decisions for you when you can’t - living will, power of attorney, all of it. prideplans.com is a great place to start. (This isn’t sponsored; I just want everyone to be as protected as possible.)

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

democracy in michigan and wisconsin was crushed to the point of near-irreversibility until 2020 -- vastly worse than what trump seems likely to be able to do before 2028 -- and we fought back, inch by inch, until we took it back, despite Republicans having both structural advantages and real support

submitted 12 days ago • 34 comments

Years ago I saw Film Crit Hulk say something I remember as boiling down to "asking if a movie is good or bad is meaningless, what's important is what is the movie trying to do or say and how does it achieve that for you" and, like, yeah. In art there should be a priesthood of all.

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

I wish cleaning left a lasting sense of... something. But it's like, I do the thing, look at the results, feel good & relieved for a millisecond, then the feeling is gone leaving literally nothing. No regret. No joy. No pride. In fact, I'm left feeling a blank emptiness, the Blah's if you will.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Information hygiene request - please circulate & take action. I’m getting bombarded with frantic fragments. Information flow is crucial right now, and every link in the chain matters. This is a concrete place where you can play a massive role in improving transmission. Start with SIFT method:

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

STREAMERS! did you hear that the Twitch Unity Guild applications for the Latin Guild & Black Guild re-opened yesterday? we'd love for you to consider applying 💜 🔗: bit.ly/unityguilds P.S. Women's Guild & Pride Guild applications will re-open very soon. stay tuned!

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

submitted 18 days ago • 485 comments

Learning that Nikki from Infinity Nikki is canonically an outcast in her own world makes me think this has potential for a Wayward Children by Seanan McGuire crossover. Miraland is the world where Nikki fits best and explains why she accepts it so easily.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

I've been feeling very inspired by an idea for a stream type I'd like to host once a month or so. For fun, I pulled a tarot card, and I feel very affirmed by its message. I feel it's telling me to do this, to dive right in because thinking about doing something is not the same as actively doing.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

We have an adorable set of free emotes to share with you! An emote for each of the 22 Spirits, which one is you favorite? These were created by the amazing @daejee.bsky.social Link in thread below ⬇️

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

I really really need you guys to make a conscious rejection of generative AI tools part of your ongoing political resistance. Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.

submitted 23 days ago • 182 comments

I chafe a little every time a game forces me to work with cops.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

No one really follows me or knows me or anything but please get back into wearing masks (KN95s, N95s, etc.) at protests and in general. It's good to be in solidarity with disabled people. It's good to protect your health and your community's. Look up your local mask bloc: maskbloc.org#local-blocs

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

To instrumentalize what my sister is saying below: every time someone says DEI say “you mean civil rights?” Every time someone says they are against woke reply “oh so you’re a segregationist!” Words have meaning! Don’t allow that nonsense to stand.

submitted 35 days ago • 65 comments

Cis men truly need to understand the power of saying “that’s fucked up bro why would you say that” to another cis man

submitted 112 days ago • 97 comments

Just two matriarchs chilling together after a hard day's work of farming for leveling materials in co-op mode. #genshinimpact #citlali #arlecchino #genshincoop #genshin Screenshot taken by @minahirion.bsky.social who was playing Arlecchino. Melt team ftw!

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

submitted 28 days ago • 49 comments

A good point. And they are starting with information about the health and safety of the general public.

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

A master thread to help people get settled on bsky 💙 ~be sure to check the full thread for lots of helpful tips! From useful feeds, how to write ALT text, to using block lists to help curate your space. 1. A quick guide to bsky: bsky.app/profile/rori...

submitted 41 days ago • 6 comments

submitted 33 days ago • 208 comments

Sign of the day…

submitted 34 days ago • 9 comments

the world they want is one where you're either unemployed or work an almost no wage job, you have almost no political input or self determination and you’re happy about it because you can get a t-shirt off temu for a $1

submitted 33 days ago • 781 comments

People keep saying “the point of all this stuff is psychological warfare” but like I’m pretty sure the point is to do all the things they intend to do as fast as possible like their website said they would do

submitted 34 days ago • 105 comments

Now would be a great time to start wearing a mask again if you’ve stopped. My family is divided between @flomask.bsky.social and Envo masks, according to fit. Both are light to wear and WORK. Protect yourself, they aren’t going to do it for you!

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

submitted 34 days ago • 903 comments

My normie husband asked me what was up with the NIH freeze and how could they do it when very obviously it is a good thing that we should do, and I gave him “they’re Nazis; it’s eugenics” as my answer. Some combo of camps, deportation, and disease is how they’ll make us “great” again.

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submitted 37 days ago • 1840 comments

The Trump admin has cancelled the panels that approve NIH grants, & is also banning scientists from communicating with the public, attending conferences, and hiring. NIH is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world. This will severely halt the development of many lifesaving treatments.

submitted 37 days ago • 72 comments

As sage centrists have been advising us that the problem is that "progressives" have pushed too far, too fast to (checks notes) try to provide equal rights and dignity to everyone, it's worth remembering that "too much, too fast" has been lobbed at every reformed. From abolitionists to civil rights.

submitted 38 days ago • 5 comments

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submitted 38 days ago • 322 comments

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)

submitted 38 days ago • 941 comments