Crab Wells

artist Benoît Prévot
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I really need folks to stop acting like Trump's goons are somehow emotionless terminators. They are super insecure bullies who desperately want to seem strong and powerful and popular and it kills them inside when they're not. Like Trump.

I'm not allowed to not know Nazi symbols and dogwhistles because I am a black man in a country with a Nazi problem. It annoys me to no end that people say "he didn't know it was a Totenkopf" as if white people are allowed to not know. And besides, dude knew

Relatedly, this is your reminder that if a food pantry would help you, you should definitely go to one.

Food pantries, like libraries, keep numbers of how many people they help. Numbers help them get funding. You are not taking from anyone; you are helping the food pantry exist.

Backed by the Heritage Foundation and Big Tech, KOSA will force everyone to upload their ID to access the internet. In an age when Palantir has direct ties to ICE, where technofascists are in power and want to eliminate and censor everything, we CANNOT allow KOSA to pass.

It NEEDS mass pushback.

It does, yes, and to be fair, that tends to be the Republican approach to everything: destroy what you don't like immediately, and get around to even brainstorming a replacement in 10 or 20 years, hoping people forget and you never actually have to do anything.

i hope they build it exactly like this

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

The fact that Republicans get upset about tearing down confederate monuments, but not demolishing the White House, says a lot.

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I still need some help with reaching my goal to pay rent this month. If you can help a first nations artist still trying to find work in a rough industry it would mean a lot. Thank you for your time, and my pardons for needing help to begin with.

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A photograph of a realistic plushie wild boar. It is made of assorted brown faux fur fabrics. It is labelled with the name "Hilda". She has gengle eyes and big tusks.

A photo of a realistic plushie wild boar named "Horace". His ears are big, black and fluffy. His mane is luxurious and his face is shades of grey, whilst his body is brown.

I've made two big cuddly plushie wild boars!

They're for sale over on my website; www.palaeoplushies.com/shop/sus-scr...

a graph of US solar generation by month

Official data is in today, and American solar power remained near a record high in August, with generation up 25% compared to last year!

Kinktober Day 25 drabble. Mind the tags, don't like don't read, we're approaching the end of the month but that sentiment is eternal.
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Not only are untrained ICE officers a danger to our communities, they also get a $50k signing bonuses while our friends and family lose their jobs.

Does it feel like Stephen Miller is making your life better?

Furloughed feds pick up Seattle beach trash to keep serving the public Furloughed federal employees were out in the rain picking up cigarette butts, bottle caps, and other trash at Seattle’s Golden Gardens Park on Friday.

Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown.

Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

It cannot get lost in the shuffle, even with so much else going on, that the world's most wealthy people have had their minds absolutely rotted out, just saturated to the dripping point with black mold down to the studs and frame, by the all encompassing unhumanity of their wealth.

Side issue but why do they all look like that?

When people glorify ‘Tough On Crime’ they are just saying that they are gleefully punitive & nothing more.

Being tough on crime isn’t the same as addressing crime. We know that the largest predictor for reducing crime is addressing need.

Reducing benefits increases crime, endangering everyone.

News of the alleged attack was seized upon by members of the far right and spread at pace on their networks. Messages were shared by people such as British far-right figure Tommy Robinson (whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) and the man he claims pays his legal fees, billionaire Elon Musk, owner of social media network X, formerly Twitter. They amplified posts by Irish far-right agitators, ensuring some reached up to 13 million X users. When a gathering at the Citywest site on Tuesday night was attended by up to 1,000 people, horse-drawn traps and scrambler motorbikes were driven into the Garda lines. Fireworks, bricks and bottles were thrown at gardaí. There was a second night of violence on Wednesday. After the violence of Tuesday and Wednesday nights, there were more than 30 arrests. Four gardaí have been treated in hospital for injuries. One significant feature of Tuesday night’s rioting was the extent of live streaming by far-right figures; many were well known and with significant numbers of online followers. A sample of 22 videos of streamed content, broadcast during the violence, totalled 93 minutes. By Tuesday night they had almost 1.2 million combined views and continued to grow exponentially thereafter. One of the live streamers was Keith O’Brien, who is from Roscommon and goes by the name Keith Woods online. He has built up a large following, including 248,000 followers on X and 30,000 on the Telegram messaging app. He has interacted with X owner Musk on the billionaire’s platform. In 2023 O’Brien appeared as a speaker at a conference organised by the white supremacist organisation American Renaissance. He is treated as a commentator of substance in US far-right media. On Tuesday night as the violence unfolded, he filmed footage, including a TV reportage-style piece to camera as a Garda van was engulfed by flames in the background. He has since created more video content using his footage. One of those videos had been viewed more than six mi…

Reupping w/archived link. Elon Musk is ginning up riots again, today in Ireland, a few weeks ago in England.

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This still holds up, and has only gotten worse since the election.

never a good thing when a concentration-camp expert tells us we’re expanding our concentration-camp network.

Alright, team Bluesky: US foodbanks are about to have staggering demand when SNAP ends Nov 1st. We need to help them prepare.

I'll match donations: DM or reply with a receipt showing your own donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll donate to match, up to a total of $500. 💪🥗🍲🥚🥧🥪🥣🥛
#NoHunger

Spotify stock graph showing a decrease of $28 in one day (Friday 10/24), the day after Spotify’s boycott became a trending topic on Bluesky. This is a roughly 5% decrease in value.

Y’all, Spotify’s stock price sunk by 5% in 1 day. YOU did this by spreading the word to boycott them for running ICE ads.

These billionaires only speak one language—money—so let’s keep up the pressure. Tell everyone you know to cancel their Spotify subscriptions. Send them to BoycottSpotify.com.

Hey, the top 1,000 richest Americans throw in likewise, and suddenly we're in business. If only there were some convenient, efficient way for the rich to pay their fair share!

the degree to which people nominally affiliated with the democratic party have decided that embracing misogyny is Good Politics probably shouldn't have surprised me, but it still has

Screenshot 1 (the activist’s original flyer / safety post): ⚠️ Heads up for Portland activists — Far-right livestreamers and agitators are coming into the city again this weekend. Their goal is to provoke reactions and film content to post online. They thrive on confrontation. Do not engage. Do not argue. Do not take the bait. If you see them, ignore them and alert others to stay back. They’re not here to protest — they’re here to create content and chaos. Keep each other safe. Stay calm, stay focused, and don’t give them what they want.

A trans activist who’s spent years tracking far-right streamers and content creators online made this flyer to warn activists in Portland. They’d seen the same names traveling city to city, showing up at protests to provoke chaos and film it for clicks. The message: “Do. Not. Take. The. Bait.” 🧵1/5

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LGBTQIA characters in romance! So many titles to choose from.
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It's supposed to be payday for many federal workers. Instead, they're getting nothing Roughly 1.4 million federal workers are going without pay due to the government shutdown. About half of them are furloughed, while the other half has been deemed essential and is working without pay.

Federal employees are struggling because they don't know when they'll receive their next paycheck.

Instead of coming back to work to negotiate a deal to reopen the government, Republican leaders announced they’re taking a sixth week of vacation.