Black Lives Matter

so, the dentist sent over a cost estimate and the immediate cost will be around 1200€, and then another at least 500€ for things that will need to be done in the very near future, so if you all could share and give via paypal or kofi we would be very thankful.

The South Philly Co-op is putting together relief boxes of quality goods for below-retail cost. Donate money to sponsor a box. $75 buys a box that feeds a family for a week/individual for 3 weeks- you can also sponsor 1/3 box for $25.

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yeah. I cannot stop others from making bad choices but that doesn't mean I have to make them. It's a package management ecosystem shaped assemblage.

the knotweed/grape vine/kudzu axis

A Blueprint on How To Fight Against Ice Includes Community These ‘neighbors from the hood’ saw ICE terrorizing their community—and banded together to fight back.

These ‘neighbors from the hood’ saw ICE terrorizing their community—and banded together to fight back.

It’s interesting to ask: did Thiessen know about this? If he did, why didn’t he, after some initial minutes of understandable mortification, protest that he wanted to be fact-checked, so that he could make his columns stronger? Can you imagine not saying that, after a bit of pain?

yes this

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and when they're wiped out it's their own fault for 'delving too deeply'

You're right they 100% don't say UU.

Revealed: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’ Pentagon memo details plan to train over 20,000 national guard members across the US to carry out Trump’s order on subduing civil unrest

"Leaked Pentagon memo details plan to train over 20,000 national guard members across the US to carry out Trump’s order on subduing civil unrest."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Happy Spooky Season from us at Wiscon!
#Wiscon #Wiscon2026 #FeministSFF

Thanks to you, we're now at $202 of $375 for my dental surgery anesthesia. Help me raise the remaining $173 by November 2nd. Thank you for your generosity!

remembering the old emeritus professor from Hitotsubashi that I met at a conference years ago who in explaining his research about wartime economics to me said "MORE LIKE 'CO-IMPOVERISHMENT SPHERE'"

Nakamura-sensei, we miss you.

yeah, and the querent's own anxiety seems odd-- 'would I be recognisably Christian to some sect if I had a syncretic practice' when the list includes UU is.. 🤷

I appreciated and agree with this. Individual newsletters and the attendant blurring of journalists and content creators is unsustainable. At best it's a stopgap, a way for some journalists to hang on a bit longer in the hope that alternatives arise before they have to leave the industry.

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My wife is Chilean and there are lots of parallels to the referendum on Pinochet where he was defeated. The pro-Pinochet ads were doom and gloom. The anti were upbeat and sunny. There was a movie about it: youtu.be/lt8VayTqQhQ?...

CMYK Color Palette by Exeunt Press CMYK color palettes for Affinity Publisher

Used RGB colors in your zine and it's causing problems?

Well, I can't fix that for you. But I can make it less likely that you'll make those mistakes in the future!

Behold, the EP CMYK (Mostly) Safe color palette: exeuntpress.itch.io/cmyk-color

#ttrpg #zines #layout #cmyk #rgb #affinity

If anyone could help with this that would be great, its just so I can get bits in and pay bills and to survive until my benefits are sorted after leaving hospital. Thanks.

Retweets appreciated 🩷

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Lloyds best friend was blocked after she suggested that next year he incorporate the more broadly recognised Electro-theremin into the costume, replacing the underappreciated, unrecorded Electro-theramin which had only been used for a single rehearsal..
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yeah, the cognitive dissonance is strong

“Cancer in male veterans should be covered,” said Dr. Anita Aggarwal, a VA oncologist who researched and treated breast cancer for years before retiring recently. “These people have put their lives at risk for us.”

A failing society is one that demands people starve in order to uphold arbitrary and socially constructed ideas of normalcy, value, and worth.

We need to reject the idea that anyone at all must work to "earn" the right to eat and live.

The best part about getting an influx of sales to my shop is that I can make little donations here and there because I'm given a little financial padding.

Today's was to donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php...

Link's perma ban is wrong and should be reversed.

Middle East crisis live: Israel has launched strikes on Gaza City, witnesses report Benjamin Netanyahu orders IDF to carry out strikes on Gaza after accusing Hamas of violating the ceasefire

Israel has launched strikes on Gaza City

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

God, or whatever you believe in, help the people of Jamaica. Worst landfall on record just occurred, according to @capitalweather.bsky.social. Graphic below is from them. Sustained winds of 185MPH and gusts of 252(!) MPH at land level.

I believe I speak for most if not all trans people when I say...

I am so god damn tired right now, Jesus Christ I'm tired, can you ghouls not give it a rest for 5 god damn minutes? Give my head peace already, I've had to put up with so much relentless hate for my entire god damn life, give it up.

The SNAP fight is actually a recapitulation of the entire purpose of the shutdown.
There's a contingency fund, Trump is required to spend it, but he's not, usurping Congress's power of the purse, essentially so he can do it again with normal appropriations whenever he wants

Rabbi Danya wrote about it here: blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Other people have moved successfully to Buttondown and Beehiiv as well.