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@skyeactual.bsky.social

40 Lesbian Evil She/Her Consensual Adulterer My body is a machine that runs on estrogen and cialis MDNI Massive Battletech fan 🇺🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 I'm all about that ✨//COSMIC & rel to 👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️ love Banner - EldoniusRex: https://bsky.app/profile/eldoniousrex.bsky.social

created November 27, 2024

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Profile picture Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted

A screenshot of a post on X. It's a double quote tweet. The original post is a photo of bacon in a frying pan and the caption says,
1/9/2025, 11:16:00 PM | 37047 4365 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

My reply didn't send :( The fire moth is my favorite Mech ever. From battletech. It's so fast that even though they nerfed the speed in MechWarrior online because it would otherwise break the game engine that piloting it counts as cardio.

1/9/2025, 9:55:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JotaHacheEle (@foresthillsnyc.bsky.social) reposted

Angry Yank here. Hot dogs and Hamburgers are American fare, it says so on the constitution.

1/9/2025, 1:55:44 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M. Laurel Walsh (@laurelwalsh.bsky.social) reposted

Love Russian thugs intimidating our dear leader in public now.

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1/9/2025, 12:39:32 AM | 484 170 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture LA Blue Dot in GA (@namwella1961.bsky.social) reposted

Happy Labor Day! To those who’ve lost your job, don't know how you're going to buy food, pay the bills, and keep your home, I hope it gives you some comfort to know that while you're struggling, Trump has made millions from being back in office. #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

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1/9/2025, 12:57:35 PM | 248 106 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Noctiflora (Chronomistress)🌪️Ⓐ 🏳️‍⚧️ (@noctiflora.bsky.social) reposted

Trans women are biologically women.

1/9/2025, 1:08:08 PM | 60 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

We're busy with our own fight over here brother you can't summon a bunch of angery yanks right now Although claiming hotdogs and hamburgers on Labor Day when a lot of Americans are going to be grilling *is* a stroke of genius 11/10 excellent trolling

1/9/2025, 1:14:01 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture floot the gender woo gerbil 🇵🇸 (@flootzavut.bsky.social) reposted

Everyone who keeps telling us the Labour Party isn't institutionally transphobic owes every trans person in your life a tenner, minimum.

1/9/2025, 1:07:49 PM | 29 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted

DESCRIPTION: self-described alpha male, wearing body armor, assault rifle, and wraparound sunglasses because he’s “afraid of nothing.”

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Profile picture Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief (@katie.bzky.team) reposted reply parent

naturally. i was laying in bed unable to sleep lamenting that i hadn't come up with any good bangers so this one i'm glad came to mind

30/8/2025, 7:13:22 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Null convention (@nullconvention.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

a little mad I didn't think of this but only because it delights me so. otoh, I am pleased you thought of it. so we're actually break even.

30/8/2025, 7:07:28 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief (@katie.bzky.team) reposted

trump dying is just a distraction

30/8/2025, 8:01:32 AM | 1283 147 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture saoirse (@spacethey.gay) reposted

i hope whenever It Happens that it hurts as much as possible

30/8/2025, 4:07:13 AM | 31 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

... I don't hate it but is it *faster* than a fire moth?

30/8/2025, 8:45:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rusty54.bsky.social (@rusty54.bsky.social) reposted

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30/8/2025, 4:15:20 AM | 15 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kdin Jenzen | 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Woman Voice Actress & VTuber! (@kdinjenzenvo.com) reposted

local trans woman who loves mecha and does vo felt compelled to dub this, shocking absolutely nobody (all voices are me, including almost inaudible the bg ramblings) (@yadanathreefour.bsky.social your stuff is awesome 💖)

25/8/2025, 9:34:52 PM | 542 171 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

A transbian I introduced to MechWarrior online just sent me this, saying: "You to me"

30/8/2025, 1:32:38 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Halcyon Ember (@halcyonember.bsky.social) reposted

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27/8/2025, 8:11:10 PM | 3469 1652 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JCDenton205 (@jcdenton205.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

don't forget emma watson and rupert grint the actors of hermione and ron are also trans allies

28/8/2025, 1:21:17 PM | 109 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

YUP. The people *who live there* can't even reliably access much of their own countries and create permanent infrastructure there because it's just so difficult. And people want to march armies into that territory? That's a great way to lose armies.

29/8/2025, 11:21:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

With the current occupant in the WH I think it's just posturing but I'm worried I'm wrong. VZ is a tar pit.

29/8/2025, 6:58:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

Sure but it's postpostmodernist bullshit. An obscure reference for the sake of making an obscure reference. It doesn't actually mean anything.

29/8/2025, 2:11:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 𝕮0𝖋𝖋𝖎𝖓𝕮𝖚𝖓𝖙 (@c0ffincunt.bsky.social) reposted

It is Our Time.

28/8/2025, 4:53:51 PM | 186 23 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture private girlfriend (@hausofholes.bsky.social) reposted

sorry for being a huge bitch it's just something I love doing

27/8/2025, 11:14:45 PM | 463 111 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li (@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com) reposted

what a weird little bitch

28/8/2025, 7:52:49 PM | 504 70 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) (@mikesenters.bsky.social) reposted

The shooter literally had the minimalist “Loss” meme on their rifle. You cannot take anything this person said or did at face value. It’s all so deep soaked in irony and toxic fandom culture that if you aren’t actually researching this stuff for a living you really shouldn’t be engaging with it.

27/8/2025, 8:41:31 PM | 2187 438 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AjiWings (@ajijaakwe.bsky.social) reposted

Every. single. Dem. pol has an obligation to be out there on the front lines of this, refusing to permit it. With their bodies, if necessary. This is the fucking job, and if they're too cowardly or complacent to do it, replace them with someone who will.

28/8/2025, 6:59:43 PM | 11 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Biscuit (@halfbakedrhymes.com) reposted reply parent

We need you, louder than you've ever been. If you dont make it incredibly clear this is unacceptable? We get camped. I get camped. We can't lead this one. We can't lead ever again. Our days of activism just ended. You have to take it up from here.

28/8/2025, 2:04:45 PM | 860 164 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Biscuit (@halfbakedrhymes.com) reposted reply parent

The question has now been asked. What was merely a possibility yesterday is now a probability today. Do trans people belong in internment camps? Yes/No Because the question has been asked, an opinion must be formed. This is where you come in. We NEED you to loudly oppose this.

28/8/2025, 2:04:45 PM | 989 186 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Biscuit (@halfbakedrhymes.com) reposted

I need my cis friends to read, understand, and share this thread. This is what we woke up to today. The talking heads are now calling for the immediate detainment of trans people. We need you. I need you. Now. To stand up. Or we start dying. 🧵

28/8/2025, 2:04:45 PM | 5196 4197 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Without History (@withouthistoryband.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Thread locked coz apparently people are determined to be fucking dicks to each other.

28/8/2025, 3:24:40 PM | 115 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Without History (@withouthistoryband.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

My good bitches, they are probably years away from directly killing us and people are already dying. A little help before the camps are actually open wouldn't go amiss.

28/8/2025, 1:42:06 PM | 343 47 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Without History (@withouthistoryband.bsky.social) reposted

Genuinely have no idea how much longer I can take literally every trans person around me being on the edge of falling apart - and every now and again losing someone I can't help keep together - while the cis people just kinda nod and assume we're all being hysterical.

28/8/2025, 1:40:33 PM | 1239 312 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

felics is a nazi, a fool, a useful fool, or a troll Isaac idk why you're still arguing with him you won the argument you can move on now

28/8/2025, 4:45:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social)

Hey just um. Just out of curiosity is there a point where your tits *stop* hurting?

28/8/2025, 4:03:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Liz 🏳️‍⚧️ (@lizhasfeathers.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

I call this video the roomba mating press (clean)

27/8/2025, 10:29:10 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Randall Munroe (@xkcd.com) reposted

Dual Roomba xkcd.com/3133/

4-panel comic. (1) [Roomba next to two people] PERSON 1 to Person 2 with white hat: The Roomba keeps my floor clean. But what do I do when the *Roomba* gets dirty? (2) PERSON 1: Simple: I got a second Roomba and a ramp, so they can clean each other. [a second Roomba takes ramp to be on top of first Roomba] (3) PERSON 1: After the tops are clean, I flip one of them over so they can clean each others’ undersides. [flips Roomba upside down] (4) [stacked Roombas vibrating] PERSON 2: There’s nothing NSFW about this, and yet it’s the most NSFW thing I’ve ever seen. PERSON 1: Yeah, my YouTube DIY video about it got demonetized.
27/8/2025, 9:58:40 PM | 3794 797 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

Cowl neck with a drawstring

28/8/2025, 4:00:41 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

*takes notes* thank you for the input! I think those are more for standing on and thus not really a yoga mat sort of setup where knees and elbows might experience pressure. I'll keep looking!

28/8/2025, 3:41:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

Hell yeah. Sometimes some friends of mine get panic paralysis and need a gentle "go for it" push, and IDK you well so I didn't know in the moment. Figured might be better to offer that than not.

28/8/2025, 2:09:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

Do it. People understand train disasters.

28/8/2025, 1:37:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

As someone who experienced some time on them, how comfortable are those puzzle pads, btw? I've been considering them now that I have some floor space to play with in my own place, but I really do want people to be comfortable. Or rather, I want them to only experience the discomfort I intend.

28/8/2025, 1:36:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture False Knees (@falseknees.bsky.social) reposted

A scene of destruction; a city's downtown lays in smouldering ruin, skyscrapers crumbling, fires creating toxic smoke. A colossal mechanical robin stands in the middle of this mayhem. The machine leans forward with a hydraulic
27/8/2025, 3:10:48 PM | 2871 806 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

Sorry, @falseknees.bsky.social for having a technomotional breakdown in your inbox, I fucking love your comic, and I had the perfect gif response, but I'm not allowed to share it with the class. Here: knowyourmeme.com/photos/16265...

28/8/2025, 1:33:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

like literally these are the search results for the word "squawk" in your gif selector none are relevant are people SEO-ing gifs now?

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28/8/2025, 1:31:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

What do you mean I can't post my own gifs on bluesky what the fuck

28/8/2025, 1:29:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

A bird inside of a BattleMech cockpit, beak visible under her neurohelmet, but eyes hidden, is surprised by what she sees. She reaches for a rotating handle, changing the selector from roost, to panic, to squawk. An info screen appears, where all items are replaced by the word Squawk. Maximum Squawk has been achieved.
28/8/2025, 1:28:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

Zheanna just fyi ash misspelled Marlins here

28/8/2025, 4:19:09 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kaelos (@thekaelosproject.bsky.social) reposted

For those of you who don’t like to open links or don’t have instagram. I downloaded the video for you. If you haven’t heard about this guy before don’t scroll past it, his name is Jesse Welles. I promise you won’t be disappointed. #jessewelles #wellesmusic #thekaelosproject #kaelos #wordshaveweight

27/8/2025, 6:04:37 PM | 3306 1023 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James (@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 (@regimecpa.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Ramirez, clean up the parking lot next to Burger Town!

26/8/2025, 11:49:29 PM | 141 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social)

On the Minneapolis shooting... I've read manifestoes. I read Elliot Rodgers' manifesto. Still have a copy. This is not a manifesto, it's a suicide note. She doesn't mention politics or change, just dark, intrusive thoughts and fears. This isn't terrorism, just murder. But the media lies.

28/8/2025, 1:19:04 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

That's hilarious and I love it. Go get it!

27/8/2025, 8:11:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

At all the shit they stole from you and put in the "British" museum I'm assuming

27/8/2025, 8:09:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

God herownself is afeart of what takes he might have in the dark

27/8/2025, 6:35:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

Well he's not wrong in that they stole an unfathomable fuckton of goods from the largest imperial extortion network on the planet and then transported those stolen goods and people all across said planet, and then built railways because it was harder to pillage on foot and they could steal/kidnap mo

27/8/2025, 6:35:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lauren (@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com) reposted

"we are human beings worthy of the same respect and dignity you'd extend to anyone else" vs "no you're not"

27/8/2025, 5:51:58 PM | 1297 217 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

People my age aren't supposed to die like this. But we do. Life is shorter than we think.

27/8/2025, 5:53:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

The world is a better place because he was in it, and I'm just wishing I could have seen him again. I need to see what I can do to support his polycule right now. And connect to the rest of us who scattered to the winds. Hug your loved ones. Stop sleeping on reconnecting.

27/8/2025, 5:53:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

I was hoping to meet up with him and all the old crew that's still up in NYC/Jersey once I was at least partially done with transition. Fuck. We say "there is still time." And there is, until there isn't. If you've got someone in your life you need to talk to? Don't wait.

27/8/2025, 5:53:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social)

I'm gutted. An old friend I had been trying to reconnect with died of a Widowmaker heart attack yesterday. He helped teach some idiot hayseed kid who wandered into his munch all the stuff I should have learned about consent, but never did. I wish I hadn't waited so long. I need to get to NYC.

27/8/2025, 5:53:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gordorb (@gordbrush.bsky.social) reposted

If you get married in England this is where you have to consummate it otherwise it doesn’t count and you’re killed for treason

27/8/2025, 3:52:12 PM | 491 126 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

Isn't anything you say in the bedroom cringe as fuck?

27/8/2025, 3:20:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Izolde Fishman (@izolde.bsky.social) reposted

i'm sorry but i put up a gofundme a few days ago to try and make rent (again! which sucks but i'm still unemployed and we don't have alt housing and we have a way to go and not a lot of time to do it if i'm gonna have a check in by the 5th. boosts appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/trans-wome...

23/8/2025, 8:38:47 AM | 22 30 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marghost 👻 (@mitildide.bsky.social) reposted

Here's promoter of the "autogynephilia" pseudoscience concept J Michael Bailey, complaining that a science journal doesn't discuss the imagined sexuality of a 17 year-old in a paper about how she solved a math problem. Anyway, trans women are the perverts by the way.

Screen Twitter Michael Bailey @profjmb To those interested in AGP: The article linked in the following post is about a trans woman, Hannah Cairo, who is a math prodigy. Although she is out as transgender (which has been disappeared from this article), and is definitely later-onset, AGP is of course not mentioned. Same account, quoting an article titled
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Profile picture Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

It's gonna be hilarious if he's just been winking at us this whole time while enjoying T

26/8/2025, 6:25:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

Wait... Shen are you a trans man?

25/8/2025, 10:47:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social)

I'm ever more convinced that Shen is a trans man who transitioned like two decades ago or something and has been winking at us this whole time.

25/8/2025, 10:45:23 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

So the fruit transitioned is what you're saying

25/8/2025, 6:28:50 PM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm reaching for my emotional support firearm while reading this

23/8/2025, 6:37:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

...that you need a new engine or something, and you don't want to pay for that, you don't get free labor from a mechanic. There's no "well you don't want to pay for the fix so you get 10 hours of our time for free" in this scenario.

23/8/2025, 4:14:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

Of course. Sex workers have a lot to say about sex work and people should listen. And now that the sapphic blue screen is over the mechanic thing is a perfect comparison. If a mechanic has to disassemble your car to find out what's wrong, you still have to pay for the labor even if it turns out...

23/8/2025, 4:14:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm too fucking gay to respond to anything you just typed when it has a conclusion like this Also I pretty much agree with you about this stuff but I promise you I had something more intelligent to say

22/8/2025, 6:21:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

Hey, back when I was part of United Association, our lobbyists actually were lobbying really hard for a clean indoor air act. But it sounded too lib coded or something and the republicans refused to even consider it.

21/8/2025, 1:45:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean that would seem to be the legal definition, but the public seems to want to describe any incident of mass murder or any crime against humanity as genocide. Or things they don't like. Nimbys say that building apartments is genocide, because it's destroying suburban culture, for example.

21/8/2025, 1:43:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Billy Bragg (@billybragg.bsky.social) reposted

I contributed to this PBS feature about a newly released trove of home recordings made by Woody Guthrie in his family apartment on Mermaid Ave in 1951-52. Woody sings about historic events, stories of the disenfranchised, love, and of course, the fight against fascism. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

20/8/2025, 3:31:56 PM | 389 91 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm getting really tired of turbolibs publicly fellating Gavin newsom.

20/8/2025, 6:42:12 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah the sugar plantations in the Caribbean were one of the greatest horrors in human history. That I think amounts to a genocide.

20/8/2025, 6:41:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

It's dangerous to define things that way because then something like 97% of Americans are victims of genocide thanks to the English only movement. There has never been only one language in this place

20/8/2025, 6:39:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

Nope. You're the one who can't read my skeets. And you don't get to try anymore because I block shouty trolls.

20/8/2025, 6:37:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

... You've completely misunderstood my point. The economy of Mississippi collapses after the civil war. Between 1807 and 1860 they become one of the wealthiest places on the planet but most of that value is in chattel slavery. When those slaves are freed, the wealth evaporated.

20/8/2025, 6:35:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, illegally. And they kidnapped free black people to sell them in Cuba.

20/8/2025, 6:30:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

First at the state level in the immediate aftermath of independence and then nationally in 1808.

20/8/2025, 6:29:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, because slaveowners raised fucktons of capital from banks around the world to set up what amounted to slave breeding operations. Which is a horror that never gets properly discussed.

20/8/2025, 6:27:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, exactly. I agree with all of this. This is what happened in its most basic form. And far worse than what's mentioned here. Public, sadistic torture and execution as a method of control through terror. Every abuse imaginable.

20/8/2025, 6:25:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't think any of the horrors should be sugarcoated here but the goal of the plantations was profit and the goal of the Holocaust was extermination.

20/8/2025, 6:24:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

And what does that say about the ethics of business people when the rest of us don't tell them "fuck no, you can't do that?" It was absolutely one big business. Which involved murder, torture, and every possible horror imaginable, which was legal in a country that talked a lot about freedom.

20/8/2025, 6:24:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

Except the goal of the work camps was to work jews to death while the goal of the plantations was to maximize profits and maximize the numbers of slaves. They're different scenarios with different motivations. Both are utterly evil but they're very different.

20/8/2025, 6:21:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

Making this argument will cause the most insufferable people whose ancestors used to speak Scottish Gaelic in this country try to pretend that what we went through is the same thing as slavery and that's simply not the case. Slavery was way worse than anything done to us in this country.

20/8/2025, 6:19:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

On the one hand, I agree, and If that's the case than the destruction of languages due to the English Only movement of the 1900s means something like 97% of Americans are victims of genocide because our languages were intentionally destroyed.

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Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

The valuation of 70% of their economy was the total value of the people slaveowners owned. Slaveowners went from wealthy to destitute and unable to pay their massive debts. And like, good. They deserved worse, at least that's something and the bankers financing deserved worse too.

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Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

After the ban, the value of slaves skyrocketed, and immigrants became the preferred labor for more dangerous jobs because a slave owner didn't lose part of their net worth if an immigrant died. There's a reason that the economy of Mississippi shrank by something like 70% after the war.

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Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

That simply isn't true, and we have the data to prove it. Slaves were absolutely tortured to death as a terror method for control, but you couldn't "always get more" because one of the things the U.S. did the moment it was independent was ban the importation of slaves.

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Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

I think it's a different kind of horror when you're trying to maximize the number of people you own in order to steal their labor.

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Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

Sorry, I can't hear you over my block button.

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Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

I have a degree in history and this is not what academia teaches. They're wrong about a lot of things, so I'm wading into a discussion to learn and ask questions. Maybe you should research the various ways people learn instead of lecturing someone for not knowing something automatically.

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Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

Except that's part of the horror. Living slaves produce labor you can steal. Dead ones don't. The goal of the plantations was not to work them to death it was to keep them alive and working for as long as possible in order to maximize the value of the stolen labor.

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Profile picture Skye (@skyeactual.bsky.social) reply parent

You were making good points here, there's no reason to tell me to go fuck myself when I'm asking questions about the way you're applying a definition. You could maybe see someone interested in the topic as interested in learning and not a political enemy for having never once heard this perspective.

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