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Photographer and lighting designer in Austin, TX. Art. Science. Nature. Travel. Amateur human. Fan of Earth. Anti-fascist and Pro Whimsy. www.fluxionphotography.com https://linktr.ee/fluxionphotography

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Loudly saying you won't vote for Newsom now is the perfect time to do it. October 29th, 2028 not so much.

Don't vote for Gavin Newsom btw. He is a virulent anti trans bigot who is cruel to homeless people, has the vibe of Patrick Bateman, and he married Kimberly Guilfoyle on purpose.

No!! No!

29.10.2025 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 349    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 5
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Sudanese humanitarian and ex-MP Siham Hassan Hasaballah was executed by UAE-backed RSF fighters in Al-Fashir, North Darfur.

Hassan was known for organizing food aid under siege and refusing to flee.

27.10.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Mamdani: "I thought that if I could build a campaign of universality ... if I behaved well enough or bit my tongue enough ... it would allow me to be more than just my faith. I was wrong."

24.10.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2659    πŸ” 357    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 49

God bless this man, and God bless this city. Go vote and get everyone you know to go vote.

blacksky.community/profile/did:...

24.10.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 197    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Volunteer | Zohran for NYC This campaign is about talking to thousands of New Yorkers across the city about how we make this city work better for the many and not the few. And to do this, we need you!

To support Cuomo or Adams is to support racism and bigotry and hatred and to foment the worst kind of division in the greatest city in the world.

No. Never.

If this makes you as angry as it makes me, please pick a time and volunteer for Mamdani.

www.zohranfornyc.com/volunteer/ev...

24.10.2025 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 232    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Color image of a few Aspen trees at their brightest yellow as the leaves change to fall colors. The image is looking up at them, backlight with a bright blue sky in the background and the trunks dark. Colors range from a bit of yellow/green on the left side to bright yellow and orange as you look to the right.

Color image of a few Aspen trees at their brightest yellow as the leaves change to fall colors. The image is looking up at them, backlight with a bright blue sky in the background and the trunks dark. Colors range from a bit of yellow/green on the left side to bright yellow and orange as you look to the right.

I know I don't post enough here. I should contribute! Currently on tour in Arizona, so here are some lovely Aspens from just North of Flagstaff. Everything is going to shit in the US, but the world is still beautiful, despite our problems.

24.10.2025 01:08 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you say, "I didn't know it was a Nazi image, but I'm not a Nazi," & you don't follow up with, "And I'm appalled & mortified that I've been walking around with this thing on my chest & subjecting people to it every time I take my shirt off, & I'm so sorry," I simply don't believe the 1st sentence.

22.10.2025 03:58 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy John Brown’s Raid day to all who celebrate

16.10.2025 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2681    πŸ” 665    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 35
A tweet from the Anonymous account says, β€œMake sure the dude in the frog costume in Portland knows he's an icon.” The image is a stylized poster of a frog wearing a stars-and-stripes scarf with the word β€œHOP” below, in the style of the Obama β€œHOPE” poster.

A tweet from the Anonymous account says, β€œMake sure the dude in the frog costume in Portland knows he's an icon.” The image is a stylized poster of a frog wearing a stars-and-stripes scarf with the word β€œHOP” below, in the style of the Obama β€œHOPE” poster.

You gotta give β€˜em hop.

13.10.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 16442    πŸ” 3894    πŸ’¬ 314    πŸ“Œ 132

Getting to see it for the first time!! You’re so lucky!

11.10.2025 00:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

07.10.2025 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 56528    πŸ” 21230    πŸ’¬ 1747    πŸ“Œ 1256

Just play this on loop for like 5 fucking minutes so it gets ingrained in your head.

03.10.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 226    πŸ” 117    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Excellent tips for keeping ICE out of your phone now featuring alt text

02.10.2025 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 716    πŸ” 546    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 9
"The last remaining member of the
Gaza skate team.”

"The last remaining member of the Gaza skate team.”

Rajab Al-Reefi the founder and head coach of the Gaza Skate Team, is the last member of the Gaza skateboarding collective. Israel has killed all the children.

30.09.2025 10:52 β€” πŸ‘ 136    πŸ” 126    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 8
A post on the importance of sending letters

A post on the importance of sending letters

A post with Disney's address

A post with Disney's address

Do this to voice your outrage at Disney's unjust cancellation of Kimmel and other people's shows for simply practicing their free speech, ASAP.

18.09.2025 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 5783    πŸ” 3659    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 77

One pretty foolproof way to know your government is fascist is when your government tries to punish you for calling it fascist.

16.09.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3872    πŸ” 972    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 20
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On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: β€œIt always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city.

This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.

16.09.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 12151    πŸ” 2720    πŸ’¬ 220    πŸ“Œ 312
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Vale Jeff Meldrum (1958-2025), Scientist and Sasquatch Supporter - The Daily Grail Word has gotten around on the Internet that Dr. Jeff Meldrum has passed away, after a long struggle with brain cancer. Dr. Meldrum was professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University. ...

Vale Jeff Meldrum (1958-2025), scientist and sasquatch supporter.

www.dailygrail.com/2025/09/vale...

12.09.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a β€œfree speech” organization and not even mention the β€œProfessor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.

11.09.2025 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 7626    πŸ” 1672    πŸ’¬ 73    πŸ“Œ 82

We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.

08.09.2025 02:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1963    πŸ” 487    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 38
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Opinion | Now Is Not the Time for Surrender

last december i wrote that democrats needed to behave like an actual opposition www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

07.09.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3289    πŸ” 523    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 22

Let's be clear what this image represents.

Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders.

THAT is the reference here.

07.09.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 7684    πŸ” 3290    πŸ’¬ 126    πŸ“Œ 82

They are all over Austin. In large numbers. Waymo has a large presence, and despite my general skeptism, they actually function pretty well (in terms of driving in traffic - I haven’t ridden in one). Definitely not vaporwear here.

05.09.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Remembering Fred Hampton born Aug. 30, 1948, assassinated Dec. 4, 1969 by Chicago police and the FBI

30.08.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1538    πŸ” 511    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 21

I go a couple times a year (Houston is just a couple hours away). It's very easy to park in the neighborhood and see the Chapel, the Menil, the Contemporary Arts Museum in a day. It's nice area for a walk, as long as it's not summer. 😜

25.08.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Baptist minister has been arrested in Oxford for holding a placard reading β€˜I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action’. Rev Grote of New Road Baptist Church said β€˜I am doing this because of my faith. I’m doing this because I’m a follower of Jesus Christ, who broke the rules and created peace.’

24.08.2025 11:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1445    πŸ” 433    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 53

Words/phrases Democrats should never use:

* bipartisan
* my Republican friends
* real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans)
* yea (when voting on Republican bills)
* distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did)
* woke (in derogatory sense)

24.08.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 10517    πŸ” 2822    πŸ’¬ 148    πŸ“Œ 144

The more things I've made, the less I've been interested in publicly criticizing the things that other people make, because once you make a few things you start to understand what a miracle it is that anything gets made at all

24.08.2025 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3795    πŸ” 1142    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 24

You know what's crazy? There have been no op-eds or editorial statements in major newspapers this year calling on Trump to resign. None calling for his impeachment. None asking if he's medically fit to be in office. Not one in any major newspaper all year.

23.08.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 5737    πŸ” 1822    πŸ’¬ 146    πŸ“Œ 131

I swear to god that if Newsom is what dems resort to in response to all this, I'm going to bash my head on the sharpest rock I can find.

22.08.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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