The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, 1996. Pastel, from a photo taken of the television. #pastel #pastels #crayon #crayons #art #artwork #parade #macysparade #macysthanksgivingdayparade #thanksgiving #thanksgivingdayparade #nyc #newyorkcity #november #comeyethankfulpeoplecome
hannah aubry
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That being said, I'm also grateful for this janky little community that we've built out of chicken wire and duct tape called #Mastodon. It's lovely and rivals the commercial socials backed with a lot of money. However, it's important that we keep it going.
Tip your server! Whatever you can afford. Every bit helps.
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Alex Akselrod
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"The truth is unavoidable now: the #socialcontract between #America and its #Jewish citizens has been shaken, not destroyed, but shaken hard enough that we cannot rely on the old narratives anymore.
For generations, Jewish families embraced #Thanksgiving as proof that they had finally found refuge — a country that welcomed them, protected them, and allowed them to contribute without fear. But that old story no longer fits. Not after watching institutions collapse under pressure. Not after seeing the raw hatred simmering beneath the surface burst openly into view. The old Thanksgiving story said, You belong here. The new reality says, You may have to fight for that belonging.
The #American Jewish community needs a new Thanksgiving story — one rooted not in fear, but in clarity. Gratitude is deeply Jewish, but gratitude is not obedience, silence, or blindness."
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/this-thanksgiving-american-jews-are-done-staying-quiet/
Tim W RESISTS
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#Pittsburgh's three newspapers — the morning Post-Gazette and afternoon Press and Sun-Telegraph — were closed in 1950 for 47 days by a strike by three unions. P-G cartoonist Cy Hungerford drew this front-page cartoon when the strike was settled in November 1950.
Silver Spook Games
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Happy #Thanksgiving the illegal US colonial occupation of our Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) land continues to try to divert our water and starve us. This drying will also produce more Lahaina fire disasters.
Joel Michael
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Evan Prodromou
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As U.S. Thanksgiving begins to wind down, here's a reminder from @TheConversationUS that communal celebrations of gratitude didn't begin with the Plymouth Pilgrims. "The emphasis on the Pilgrims’ 1620 landing and 1621 feast erased a great deal of religious history and narrowed conceptions of who belongs in America," writes Thomas Tweed, a professor emeritus of American Studies and History at the University of Notre Dame.
#History #USHistory #Thanksgiving #NativeAmericanHistory #Indigenous
Chip Butty
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Today, many Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. My family will be taking advantage of the time given to us to eat and be together. But we will not be celebrating colonialism.
Today is also National Day of Mourning for Native Americans. It was initiated by Frank "Wamsutta" James of the Wampanoag people in 1970.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Mourning_(United_States_protest)
#Thanksgiving #NativeAmerican #Indigenous #NationalDayOfMourning
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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Something I actually love about the Fediverse—and I'm not being sarcastic at all right now, btw—is all of the unsolicited advice I get from random people who already know way more than I do about whatever incredibly niche topic.
There have been so many times I've posted something bizarrely specific, not even asking for advice, and had replies from people who'd already gone there before me, giving me their takes on what to do or not to do. One reason I not only don't mind this but, again, welcome it is because most of the advice I've been given in that context has been helpful. I say "most" and not "all," and "helpful" and not "correct," not because most of it's incorrect. Most of it's not incorrect. I say that because of me more so than anyone/anything else: not all reasonable advice applies, at least all the time, to me and whatever I'm trying to do, and again, that's usually because I'm already out on the fringe anyway. That doesn't mean the advice is bad in its own right, though, and it's usually not. It's usually still helpful, even, or perhaps especially in that case. People here are in one way or another, on average, about as fringe as I am by my own estimate, so fair enough. This is exactly what I mean when I say that I welcome any and all reasonable advice.
I'm not saying that Reply Guys don't exist, or that RTFM is always an unreasonable response; I'm saying that the Fediverse is, in my experience, particularly useful for troubleshooting whenever RTFM is impractical, either because the FM doesn't even exist or, again, may not be fully relevant if it does. The reality that rational people would be willing to pay for that kind support makes it both hilarious and amazing that random people on the Fediverse give it away for free when no one even asked for it. If you do that, and if you also identify as a guy, that still doesn't make you a Reply Guy if you're asking me; that makes you, to me, some guy who replies, and replies with something that doesn't waste everyone's time at that, which is unfortunately rare on the Internet (however ironically).
Reply Guys can be found anywhere on the Internet, not just here. The way I look at it is that the more helpful a community is, the fewer Reply Guys there are proportionally, and the more people actually reply. So the Fediverse is quite helpful according to my own logic.
Just so we're clear, I do block people who piss me me off, immediately. It's just that that doesn't happen here very often, especially as compared to the rest of the Internet I'm familiar with. If I had to ballpark it, I'd say that for every one person I block here specifically because of their interactions with me on my own posts, I become mutuals with—and this is conservative, frankly—five more, and that's not an exaggeration.
This is what I love about most of you:
most of you are unapologetically weird.
This is how it's supposed to be.
Thanks.
#Fediverse #Thanksgiving #HappyThanksgiving2025 #RTFM #ReplyGuy #ReplyGuys
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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Turkey (𝘔𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘢𝘷𝘰) feather we found in Frear Park back in 2022:
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Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating! 🦃
We may not be celebrating here in the UK, but we'd still like to extend our thanks to the community we've built across the Open Social Web and all of the people who have guided, advised, and supported us.
Thank you 🧡
Ross 🏳️🌈🏴
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Not gonna lie, we are having a family dinner today but it shall not be referred to as "Thanksgiving"
Rob Fahrni
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Happy #Thanksgiving everyone! LLAGG (Live long and gobble gobble) 🖖
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Evan Prodromou
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🗣📣 PUSH TO PROD 💃🏾
🗣📣 PUSH TO PROD 👯♀️
🗣📣 TROLLALA 🥸
🗣📣 PUSH TO PROD 🎉
Billy Smith
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#Landback is also a #WomensRights issue.
As women across the U.S. give 150% to make the holidays special just as their mothers did and mothers before them.
#women keep this country together. That’s why I believe so strongly that #indigenous sovereignty is so intrinsically tied to the liberation of #white women.
I know both experiences deeply as many other mixed natives raised by white mothers know. #thanksgiving for a better future.✊🏽
Read it in full at @rootschange
https://www.rootschangemedia.com/nov25-native-gender/
