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@violiav.bsky.social

created November 5, 2024

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Profile picture onion person (@junlper.beer) reposted

we’re about to see a second wave of teen reddit atheism the world has never seen before

2/9/2025, 9:21:39 PM | 3705 584 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

The local atheist club is about to pop off.

2/9/2025, 9:50:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

My hope is that the decline is due to people being productive in activism and organizing rather than posting.

2/9/2025, 9:39:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Not directed at you, because I think you get it, but some folks, for some reason, do not.

2/9/2025, 9:22:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Sharing this book in your comment section once again, in hopes that people realize the limitations of social media when it comes to politics and activism.

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2/9/2025, 9:19:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

I literally just flew in to Chicago. Everything looked fine.

2/9/2025, 8:09:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

I literally just did a poll and answered that no, they need to push harder.

2/9/2025, 7:59:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social)

This is now a Canada simp account, sorry.

2/9/2025, 4:45:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social)

Easiest major airport to navigate so far has been Ottawa. Shortest time I’ve had to sprint across a major airport has been has been at Newark. Difficult to navigate has been Reagan.

2/9/2025, 4:35:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

The fractured information ecosystem is a real problem.

2/9/2025, 2:55:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

I think there were lots of other factors at play. One of my local Dems told me that she still would encounter people that were unaware about the switch to Harris.

2/9/2025, 2:55:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Going downhill fast

2/9/2025, 1:36:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Yup. It works for the other guys.

1/9/2025, 4:11:42 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m glad it’s not just me lol

1/9/2025, 4:07:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

I super recommend Log Off by @quinnae.com

1/9/2025, 3:55:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Wait, was that partly why? I thought he just didn’t want to go.

1/9/2025, 3:53:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

I live in Texas, but am visiting Canada. As far as I can tell, things are more expensive for me back home. Hands down.

1/9/2025, 3:51:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

I don’t wholly disagree. There were a lot of bad actors in overlapping powerful person friend groups whose actions just happened to coincide. The Soros stuff, more or less, can be traced back to one guy that was his neighbor. www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hnsg...

1/9/2025, 3:48:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Then I went to a Serbian festival and someone looked at me and then helped the person behind me. Maybe it’s a weird American invisibility cloak.

31/8/2025, 11:43:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social)

Weird thing keeps happening in #canada people keep skipping over me, or trying to cut. My kid and I were waiting for an elevator while we were laden with stuff on a dolly, and a guy tried to rush ahead of us. It was weird.

31/8/2025, 11:43:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m in Texas, the closest passenger train is like 200 miles away

31/8/2025, 11:30:52 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m in Canada and it’s crazy how much random stuff in cheaper here than in Texas.

31/8/2025, 11:28:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

No body believes that

31/8/2025, 11:27:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

It should be Hillary

31/8/2025, 3:40:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Yo

31/8/2025, 3:04:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Shit happening with Russia I think

30/8/2025, 5:06:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social)

It’s cheaper for me to by stuff in Canada than in America.

30/8/2025, 5:00:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

I can’t figure out where it started.

30/8/2025, 4:56:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Right? I’m in Canada this weekend. Come on!

30/8/2025, 4:56:09 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Nooo

30/8/2025, 4:30:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Is it gonna happen? Are there rumors?

30/8/2025, 4:27:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Everyone’s been nice! Very sympathetic.

30/8/2025, 2:42:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

A 15 year old Canadian kid told me he read somewhere that Trump has like 6 months. I have no idea where he read that.

30/8/2025, 2:40:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

So I’m in Canada rn (depositing a kid so they can go to college). I feel like I’ve missed something insane today. Canada is nice. Less fascists.

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30/8/2025, 1:59:15 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

That being said, Dems will organize to find congressmen, but it’s never a whole lot.

29/8/2025, 1:39:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

This is insane.

28/8/2025, 7:57:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

I just left an airport. All the kids I saw looked normal.

28/8/2025, 7:52:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social)

This shit is insane www.wfaa.com/article/news...

28/8/2025, 12:57:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

I agree.

28/8/2025, 12:49:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Something is tickling my brain about Stephenville TX. But that 764 shit is the most disturbing stuff I’ve read in awhile.

28/8/2025, 12:48:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Jesus. Covid broke a lot more people than we know. So. Kids mom left when he was 10 in 2016, 5 years later when he dropped out at 15 Covid is full bore. Stephenville. Huh. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

28/8/2025, 12:11:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe I’m remembering some niche computer lingo? I’m almost certain it was pre 2019

27/8/2025, 10:58:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh no. I know I’ve seen “CVLT” before, but I don’t remember where. Maybe in some other internet context?

27/8/2025, 9:19:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

I dunno, my vote is for this guy en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_...

27/8/2025, 7:51:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hnsg...

27/8/2025, 7:49:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_...

27/8/2025, 7:48:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Do Arthur Finkelstein! Same class of guy, way worse.

27/8/2025, 7:47:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

The Russian part is unexpected.

27/8/2025, 7:05:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

I’ve been looking at the Facebook spam NJ posts and it’s either trans, antisemitism, or atheism. There’s got to be some massive RWNJ group chat where they coordinate that bile.

27/8/2025, 7:02:32 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Right? It’s weird how many people don’t know that. Just vote in the primaries.

27/8/2025, 3:32:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Hank Green (@hankgreen.bsky.social) reposted

Turns out some of the “we want small government” people kiiiinda wanted the government to be just one guy.

26/8/2025, 6:49:28 PM | 13173 1932 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

No

27/8/2025, 1:35:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

So 80s era Republicans?

27/8/2025, 1:28:17 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) reposted

"Honey, I don't have much time. I've been arrested by ICE and they are sending me to a detainment center. I love you and the kids, I will be OK, please call our attorney" -- John Shin, DACA resident, speaking to his wife last week. She hasn't heard from him since www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...

25/8/2025, 3:48:44 PM | 3670 1905 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."

26/8/2025, 7:25:32 PM | 5704 2307 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Is this still the cabinet meeting?

26/8/2025, 7:28:11 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

There’s a beef tallow guy that’s been coming to my local farmers markets and most people skip him. I politely went up to his booth, allegedly he had it made himself, but I think it’s actually a MLM

26/8/2025, 7:23:18 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Like, elected people or? Ground party people? I know party Dems that are trying to organize migrants and help them. A lot of the people I know are trying to help in different ways.

26/8/2025, 5:45:04 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

What is the reason?

26/8/2025, 5:13:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

This is all insane

26/8/2025, 5:12:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

I can’t tell what that lady said?

26/8/2025, 4:46:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

26/8/2025, 2:37:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

And yeah, that means approaching Democrats and making let you join the team.

26/8/2025, 2:36:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

I wanna follow up on this. The solution to our current problem is to make sure the elections happen. So that means sucking it up and doing the difficult work of working the election, subverting social media, and making sure people vote.

26/8/2025, 2:35:03 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zach Dorfman (@zachsdorfman.bsky.social) reposted

The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country

25/8/2025, 1:28:58 PM | 24613 6420 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Numbers. Person to person organizing. I really recommend you read Saul Alinskys Reveille for Radicals. But also look up the meaning of the word “radical”. It doesn’t mean “extremism”.

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26/8/2025, 1:09:29 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social) reposted

A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."

25/8/2025, 11:27:42 PM | 14054 4722 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m continually surprised that people do it, it has to be one of those things that you really love doing.

26/8/2025, 12:48:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

This is what irritates me about the meme posting left that talks a game but then like, does jack all

26/8/2025, 12:39:21 AM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Also, fuck consultants.

25/8/2025, 5:44:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

I keep telling people that i meet who are interested in running for office that they need to be authentic. I get looked at like I’m crazy.

25/8/2025, 5:43:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Kluwe (@chriswarcraft.bsky.social) reposted

Hey everyone, you’ve been asking me to run for office for a while, so guess what? I’m running for California State Assembly! Now, I don’t like asking for money, but we gotta pay for this somehow, and if everyone throws in $7 we’ll have the resources to run one hell of a race, so, uh, do the thing.

25/8/2025, 2:29:39 PM | 7160 1630 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Is this a new thing? Jfc. See this is what I’m talking about. Information is too fractured and incoherent to be on the same page about practically anything. Governed by feed.

24/8/2025, 3:28:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Meg Pillow (@megpillow.bsky.social) reposted

What some folks are missing about this is that it’s not that Twitter is going to make every leftist into a Nazi. It’s that it makes you believe that the worst ppl in the world are everywhere. It brings out the darkest parts of your personality, your most nihilistic view of the world.

24/8/2025, 12:46:36 AM | 350 105 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) reposted

Know your rights, Chicago. Ask for a warrant. Record the goons from a safe distance. We don’t want or need them here.

24/8/2025, 1:28:43 AM | 8295 2321 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

What does that even mean? Like? Americans? Voters?

24/8/2025, 2:22:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m not going to listen to every piece of media out there. Who has the time for that?

24/8/2025, 2:20:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social)

The solution is always to organize. That’s it. Do the gritty democracy work.

24/8/2025, 2:19:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

"Trump’s audience are his supporters mostly living in suburbs, exurbs, and rural areas. He’s priming them to accept outright war against US cities. In this case, it might be as simple as 'they hate us for our freedoms.'" — @playtyperguy.com

23/8/2025, 9:58:48 PM | 2552 831 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Also, I have no idea what you’re referring to. You know not everyone knows every single bill. People have lives. People are busy.

23/8/2025, 10:49:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

If you’re in California then the best thing that you can do is organize to attempt to keep anything from coming to fruition.

23/8/2025, 10:45:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

My internet denizen. You don’t know the first thing about me. I’m not telling Newsom anything, I don’t think they’re taking the ambivalence of a 42 year old lady in Texas with, quite frankly, more pressing issues. Surface level, as far as I can tell the California anti trans bills have been DOA.

23/8/2025, 10:45:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

No, I don’t. I haven’t and won’t listen to the podcasts, but my guess is that he was “bro-ing” out or caught up in conversation. I think looking for signals is a waste of time.

23/8/2025, 10:37:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Like, it’s just a fucking restaurant chain. It has zilch to do with anything substantial. My fellow Americans stop wrapping up your identity with brands challenge. Seriously.

23/8/2025, 5:01:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

All of this feels like the stupidest make a wish ever.

23/8/2025, 12:25:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Is there any Newsom anti trans legislation or is it just the podcast stuff?

22/8/2025, 11:42:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Like, apparently I’m leading the revolution in my county, and got upset at a friend that’s running for congress and her husband because they were talking about building and burning bridges. I’m like no, you’re missing it. It’s about forming alliances wherever you go and finding the commonality.

22/8/2025, 3:22:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Like I was talking to a guy that was complaining about how trans focused “the democrats” were. Come to find out he was just complaining about what he saw on Reddit. Arrrgg

22/8/2025, 3:16:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

They are not helpful. You cannot organize around nothing.

22/8/2025, 3:08:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

“Be a brand” I swear the list of people I’m gonna punch if I see them irl gets longer every day.

22/8/2025, 3:05:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Who are you talking about? TV politicians? Very online journalists? Very online activists? The Youth? Party folks? Hippies? I’ve never met a human irl that says chest feeding. And the people overly careful with their language aren’t likely to run for office.

22/8/2025, 3:03:06 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

As far as I can tell it’s just on twitter, but still. Don’t comment on this bullshit.

22/8/2025, 2:58:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

I was talking with a guy the other day and he was complaining about “the Democrats” and I eventually figured out that he was complaining about Reddit comments he came across. Like! Dude.

22/8/2025, 2:47:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Who are these people?? www.thirdway.org/about

22/8/2025, 2:44:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

wtf is third way?

22/8/2025, 2:40:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

I think the end of the latest one could have been stronger, but overall I liked it.

22/8/2025, 2:37:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh god, I’m not even in the loop on SNW discourse. I think they’ve been great.

22/8/2025, 12:28:57 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

What state is is this?

22/8/2025, 11:29:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture violiav.bsky.social (@violiav.bsky.social) reply parent

This guy in my group, I thought I was getting to him about proactive actions and community, but he’s gone back to posting dirtbag left memes probably made in some right wing factory.

22/8/2025, 2:36:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Teddy Wilson (@reportbywilson.bsky.social) reposted

Steak 'n Shake is owned by Biglari Holdings, founded by Sardar Biglari — Iranian immigrant multimillionaire and supporter of Trump. Biglari bought 4.7 million shares of Cracker Barrel in 2011, and failed seven times to take over the company. Trump supporters will buy any “MAGA-branded” bullshit.

22/8/2025, 12:37:13 AM | 830 198 | View on Bluesky | view