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Sy Ableman

@mapwitch.bsky.social

tikkun olam is praxis. used to talk about maps a bit but now I mostly speak legalese. from the great lakes but now in the bay. oakland forever.

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You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

13.10.2025 10:31 β€” πŸ‘ 9531    πŸ” 2653    πŸ’¬ 184    πŸ“Œ 116
Sickos meme

Sickos meme

11.10.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The next level of the Mitch Hedberg joke is watching someone go up a broken down escalator

11.10.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

diane keaton?????

11.10.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

14.08.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 8259    πŸ” 2332    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 162

I hope @scottwiener.bsky.social and his staff are celebrating SB79 by putting all the best NIMBY memes on a sheet cake

10.10.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

at this point i've decided to only engage with people who follow the rules of nuanced critique and the limitations of praxis with this meme

10.10.2025 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

THEY SAID IT COULDN'T BE DONE! gonna celebrate by upzoning my Cities Skylines version of SF tn

10.10.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

thinking of 'funded by Qatar' on every museum exhibit I've been to for years

10.10.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Its crazy how much private equity has become the socially acceptable boogeyman. I’ve had to explain to so many friends the sheer scale of the housing market in the Bay Area, let alone nationally!!

10.10.2025 04:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great post. Horrible comments.

10.10.2025 02:49 β€” πŸ‘ 89    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

Bart conductor wearing a Yankees hat, what has this world come to? 😩

10.10.2025 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No no no only America has agency

09.10.2025 05:10 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

habeas corpus is the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

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r/Lollapalooza 3 yr. ago DaL 028 Join [deleted] I'm excited for Limp Bizkit, but I'm a little worried about Antifa... Question I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city

In some ways this is the government now

08.10.2025 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 10974    πŸ” 1525    πŸ’¬ 434    πŸ“Œ 174

β€œYou know, I just don’t think the nephew of Cenk Uygur has an unbiased view on this”

09.10.2025 04:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I had a Cypriot Lyft driver today and we bonded over our knowledge of the Ottoman Empire

09.10.2025 04:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I got told by a Hasan fan that I should learn about the Young Turks which made me die laughing

09.10.2025 04:12 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The Armenia flavor of this is so fucking funny

09.10.2025 03:39 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Seeing someone tell an Iranian that they should read up on the Iran Hostage Crisis on here is genuinely the most perfect encapsulation of American political discourse possible

09.10.2025 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 261    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

Forgot what Podziemski’s real job was there for a sec … not just a Valkyries’ superfan

09.10.2025 02:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I need an oral history of how β€œDisney on ice” got started

09.10.2025 02:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

New yoga studio is right next to my favorite Ethiopian place … what a blessed combo

09.10.2025 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

we gotta enlist BARTman to help

08.10.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oconomowoc

08.10.2025 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

lydia tΓ‘r back in the news after being spotted liking a post on instagram from @taylorswift about β€œgirlbossing too close to the sun”

08.10.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 68    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I've never seen "Various fruit trees like apple, pear & peach trees, are planted around the perimeter of our Headquarters" used as a sustainability indicator before

08.10.2025 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m convinced at this point that this cultural revolution will backfire because what they target is so innocuous

08.10.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Still riding a high of deep cleaning and reorganizing my kitchen

08.10.2025 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

embarrassed by how much i relate to the xenomorph

08.10.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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