I really wish I had access to a Scottish Gaelic class down here (/with agoraphobia). the duo course I like well enough for vocabulary and hearing different accents but my understanding of grammar is still woeful and I have absolutely no confidence in understanding without double checking

If you need a little beauty in your life right now, take a moment to lose yourself in this gorgeous piece that I commissioned from @anyachalina.bsky.social for @autonocast.bsky.social. I call it "City of Dreams" and I can't wait to hang a high quality print of it in my home.

girls hate it when a last alliance of men and elves marches against the armies of Mordor

Being found guilty or not in a court of law isn't a decision about whether something is moral or just.

The problem is that Starmer's Labour, the Democrats and their acolytes desperately want to continue with the apolitical, economistic, technocratic style on which they ascended in the '90s, ignoring the fact that politics (and history) are happening, with or without them, and will wash them away.

Just imagine if this sort of nonsense had been going on for decades, about things that happened in Ireland or Black British people or Asian British people or trans people or climate change or - sorry, I am getting an update *listens to earpiece* I'm afraid I have some very bad news about the news.

Needed this reminder today.

I’m so exhausted that it took a white US citizen for this kind of outcry. It’s disgusting and embarrassing. Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was killed three months ago the same exact way and 85% of the country don’t even know he existed because he was brown and a migrant.

I want us to stay focused on the grief of this terrible moment, but when Black people tell you not to touch something, that is not a challenge. Some things are ours for a reason. We can remember Renee Good as the person she was and the circumstances of her murder without co-opting Black suffering.

thoughts.

so don't worry about when the dam's finally going to break and a new world will sweep in and the wrongs will be righted that's not for us to worry about. when you get to the age where you've buried enough comrades, you stop worrying about "will we see it" they didn't see it. it doesn't matter.

this system is fucking atrocious, it's actually a bunch of interconnected systems of power and it took 600 years for these people to get this entrenched and powerful and that's with constant opposition in one form or another it's a generational struggle you just need to stay plugged in and work

oldhead advice from an oldhead. every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown" and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work gotta build for long term

what u have to understand is that working on my novel, answering dms, and answering emails all cost 1 spell slot but posting? Posting is a cantrip

A broken clock is right twice a day. A broken digital clock is blank, and thus morally pure. A broken sundial has alarming astronomical implications.

Exactly. We don't need to post "say her name" when the literal mayor of the city has already done a press conference about her death. "Say her name" is for the people who would otherwise be forgotten.

white people are erasing Black women from a movement we created to *prevent* our erasure. that irony doesn't make you even a little ashamed? that's not enough for you to respect our boundaries and actually be in solidarity with us? this shit is so vile man, I'm close to tears. we can't have NOTHING?

Say Her Name is not for white women.

Since the whole Grok CMAS thing blew up, there's a situation from maybe 7 or 8 years ago that's been on my mind Because someone predicted what we're seeing now with uncanny accuracy and the attitudes it revealed horrified me. And I didn't know what to do with it then and I don't now 🧵

people have been using this as a justification for written/drawn CSAM for a long, long time there is absolutely zero evidence it works like that, and no reason to think it would in other instances either

the obama admin expanded ICE, the biden admin expanded ICE. not sure just voting blue is helping

It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.

lmao, Charlotte Clymer likes Conway because she is also an abusive grifter

Imagine if newspapers instead wrote something like, "According to police, the suspect tried to hit the officers with his car. In 35 out of 37 statements issued by this department over the past 5 years, police gave false initial statements, later contradicted by their own bodycam footage."

This is the ninth shooting by ICE since September (I did not know that). All of them were into vehicles.

both from the aspect of "you should trust nothing in a law enforcement press release", and also "don't be a useful White Idiot who just believes what you're told by the government," and also that the goal has to be building a world where a Fred Hampton just gets to fucking play baseball

like you read those FBI documents and you're like "wow okay so J. Edgar Hoover really put out a hit on like a college student to protect the business interests of Chicago landlords and then framed him for his own murder" and immediately wonder how many other times something like that has happened

I do think if you're white and Christian in America you're obligated to confront the fact that YOU GUYS are the group everyone else is joining forces to protect each other from, like solidarity between Black and Jewish communities in Chicago developed because the same groups were targeting them

I think the first and biggest is just the realization that if those activists hadn't broken into an FBI field office and leaked everything they found, no one would ever have known it was a targeted killing (and even WITH the files it took like 20+ years of trials and appeals??)

the FBI documents lay out quite clearly like "okay we're gonna make this look like a shootout where the cops were just minding their business and the Panthers were raining bullets down on them and these two guys died by friendly fire, here's how we'll stage it," and like it WORKED

notable in recognizing how many people they end up murdering are being shouted at in the middle of a psychotic episode where their cognitive functioning is severely limited, they're terrified, and they're often hearing many, many other voices screaming things at them simultaneously

I've participated in many protests against the negligence and violence endemic in ICE detention centers over the years Chalking names is a lovely tribute. Body bag protests get more coverage. Both are easy to do if you're looking to do something.

Bravest motherfuckers you've ever seen. They just saw a neighbor get murdered and still out there. Maybe let's see some local officials with the power to arrest show as much backbone as these voters PAYING YOUR FUCKING SALARY

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

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I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

with respect, this is not at all what bearing witness means, which is to speak truth in the face of atrocity.

important message to all bluesky users

there are many resistance actions that are worth going to jail over posting on bluesky is not one of them!

man the video is circulating so settings > content & media > uncheck auto-play video & gifs

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Would You Feed Me To The Wolves, Too?

this man is stealing my identity

Vultures are beautiful

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I understand it's because musk is richer than god like I get WHY the government refuse to do anything about it, but it just makes me feel completely insane seeing it so blatantly?

Please stop posting stuff I don’t like. In the future try to do posts that I would enjoy

This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.

You, a peasant: Kill Bill Me, refined: Killiam William