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tara "tara wrist" hillegeist. i dabble. (once, i moonlighted as a dragon golem vtuber for a time. one day i shall do so again.) if you're here you're here for 1 of 3 things: media criticism, dialectical materialism, or unhinged reposts of what i like.

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st ajora says trans rights @ae2501maeth.bsky.social · Mar 18

ae/2501/maeth. do you know what the difference is between someone society treats as real and someone they treat as fictional? it's whether they experience consequences for how they use them. they can do anything they want to you if they know you don't really exist. so: do you know if you're real?

the doll's hand taken away: "2501". a place of safety, of certainty.

the doll's hand, pointing now, again: "maeth."

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st ajora says trans rights @ae2501maeth.bsky.social · 7h

falling in love with a girl who is so ophelia coded her ass is haunting *everyone's* narrative

st ajora says trans rights @ae2501maeth.bsky.social · 8h

well. i can't say the translation staff handling KAMEN RIDER ZEZTZ don't know exactly what audience they're expecting to tune into their efforts!

screencap of a subtitle reading "Seven's very good with his hands."

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Rumindo @rumindo.bsky.social · 14h

Day 13 - Lupo
#arktober2025 #Arknights

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 13h

I like to remind people about lifetime limits and the refusal of insurers to sell coverage to people with preexisting conditions.

The ACA has issues. But those 2 things alone make it worth saving and fixing.

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 13h

Couple of thoughts:
(1) I miss Cora Harrington's presence, because she would have a thing or three to say about that header image
(2) Some of those historical illustrations of women with tiny corseted waists are actually fetish images

Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 13h

Oh dear, no thank you.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/s...

Plastic Surgery Comes for the Waist

www.nytimes.com

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st ajora says trans rights @ae2501maeth.bsky.social · 10h

currently idly imagining how funny it would be to wake up any day soon and have even the smallest of justifiable reasons to compose a quote post reading "kermit the frog ....... welcome to the resistance"

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10h

Taxpayers aren’t supposed to deduct losses from something that has no hope of being a profitable business.

But billionaire-owned operations that look like expensive hobbies, like race horses, rack up business deductions by the tens of millions of dollars.

(Published 2023)

Private Planes and Luxury Yachts Aren’t Just Toys for the Ultrawealthy. They’re Also Huge Tax Breaks.

What’s the only thing better than having your own Gulfstream jet? Why, getting to claim millions in tax deductions for it. All you have to do is make a case you’re using it for business, which turns o...

www.propublica.org

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 11h

Bruno!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10h

I've been told that this 2019 fundraiser for Miss Major started after her stroke is where anyone who might want to contribute to the expenses of her family in the immediate future should contribute: fundly.com/missmajor - It will stay open for the time being.

Click here to support Miss Major's Monthly Fundraising Circle by Friends of Miss Major

After Miss Major's 2019 stroke, donations go to continuing her rehab + her retirement fund, in addition to helping care for Asiah, the baby she and Beck ...

fundly.com

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julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 10h

it is vital, vital, for the health of our society, that peter thiel not be allowed to read berserk

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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st ajora says trans rights @ae2501maeth.bsky.social · 10h

would he even have enough close personal friends left to sacrifice to the god hand in exchange for a wish, is the real pertinent question

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st ajora says trans rights @ae2501maeth.bsky.social · 10h

but assuming "this space left blank" to mean *male*? oh, *everybody* fucking does *that*. and nobody fucking blinks at their doing it, either! not once! not even half the time when they have lived a life where by all rights they should question it! because no one's ever put the question to them!

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st ajora says trans rights @ae2501maeth.bsky.social · 10h

to spell it out: to use "she" for the doctor is to know you're cutting against the social default of reading an aspiration towards *masculinity* into the performance of any sort of nonbinariness/agendering/"androgyny" on the part of especially a viewpoint protagonist. nobody takes that for granted.

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st ajora says trans rights @ae2501maeth.bsky.social · 10h

in theory you'd assume i'd have the same problem with insisting on the doctor's gender as female, given the doctor's for-all-intents-and-purposes official gender is "any/irrelevant", but lol. lmao. no one is actually doing that. no one truly insists on gendering the doctor as a woman. i wonder why!

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田亀源五郎 Gengoroh Tagame @gengorohtagame.bsky.social · 12h

[INFO] Official English translated edition of 'Fish & Water' will be released from Pantheon/Penguin Random House on Jun 23, 2026 in both of physical printed book and ebook. Pre-order available. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/778491...

Fish and Water by Gengoroh Tagame: 9780593702222 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A tender and beautifully illustrated story, FISH AND WATER is a new graphic novel from Eisner award-winning graphic novelist Gengoroh Tagame. He asks: What if The Odd Couple were Japanese, living in t...

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st ajora says trans rights @ae2501maeth.bsky.social · 11h

see potentially fascinating video breakdown of the writing for the doctor in ARKNIGHTS. click on it. video immediately genders the doctor as male.

never mind!

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 19h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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st ajora says trans rights @ae2501maeth.bsky.social · 11h

anecdotally i've never met a gal it didn't make hornier (myself included, even though my actual interest in actual fucking remains permanently stuck at "nauseated by the thought, so, nil"), but whether that's the pills or just delight in having tits is up for tremendous debate, lol

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mirna @neo.yokohama · Jan 4

i liked this design so much that i blew it up to full res

i am immensely bored can you tell. I wish e3 was around so i could finally do a convincing hoax.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

This is the strangest thing about living in Ireland. Irish people talk and think about the genocide 24/7 but you would never guess that if you watch Irish TV. It's like their TV is run by Brits

Jo Ní Ghiolla Shúiligh @jogil.bsky.social · 1d

“He continued: “I think there is a chilling effect on editors and broadcasters who go, ‘why would we bother annoying people? Don’t mention Palestine, will you? Don’t mention Israel, don’t mention Micheál Martin, whatever you do’.””

www.thejournal.ie/mario-rosens...

Mario Rosenstock calls out 'censorship' at RTÉ

Rosenstock was speaking in an interview with Newstalk’s Anton Savage yesterday.

www.thejournal.ie

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 14h

the art you make is always already made for yourself and for others at the same time, insofar as the changing self is nothing more than a perpetual dialogue with changing others. thus, your art works within its social context but is autonomous through your creative process. do what you see fit

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 14h

the first rule you must tell yourself when you are making art is that you are not going to change hearts and minds with your art but it is imperative that you make it anyway

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 12h

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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Jana H-S (they/she) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 1d

so the doctor says "you should check out this comic. it's only four panels long, but it's really evocative. really puts things in perspective" and the man says "but doctor, I'm not a patient here. I'm looking for my fiancée"

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