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🥀your ghoulfriend gore-igan.⚰️ @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 1h

I cannot.

My review of Monster: The Ed Gein Story

I am not being hyperbolic when I say this is one of the worst television shows I have ever seen in my whole 40 years on this planet. That this bears absolutely zero resemblance to the real Ed Gein is one thing in and of itself, but even if this was about a completely fictional murderer (which it essentially IS), it would be baffling and indefensible. By the time history's greatest lover and friend Ed Gein starts speaking in an Irish accent and solving crimes, the show is so far gone you have to just fucking accept it. This is what you've chosen to do with your precious time. You've committed eight hours to the absurdist rehabilitation of Ed Gein, misunderstood victim who lit up every room he entered. After all, aren't we the monsters or whatever? Who lives, who dies, who tells his stoooory?

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 29d

Time for this thread again

Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · Dec 20

Bluesky (users): "We fucking love trans people!"
Bluesky (team):

Denethor glaring out the window in Return of the King

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 2h

Aspergillus, Cladosporium: welcome to the resistance

Joshua "The Crypt" Keep(er) @jekeep.bsky.social · 10h

The far-right mouthpiece who told young men to clean up their place while in front of his very clearly messy home, now has contracted an illness from all the mold in his home.

If you wrote such a fascist character in a story it would be deemed a silly caricature.

Jordan Peterson diagnosed with chronic condition after exposure to mold

Peterson's daughter said her father has a "genetic predisposition that causes the immune system to have an inability to identify and detoxify mold."

www.newsweek.com

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 45m

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Halimede. @halimede.bsky.social · 11d

A Cis Girl's Guide To Picking Up Trans Girls

gabe dunn eat your heart out

substack.com/@halimedemf/...

Halimede. (@halimedemf)

and here we go.

substack.com

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Persephone @apatilonia.bsky.social · 3h

www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com/u-s-customs-...

Anyone who has an X gender marker won't be allowed to use their passports to travel after Oct 25th

CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIS

CBP enforces binary sex codes and stricter US passport validation in APIS effective October 2025. Key compliance updates for business travelers and airlines.

www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 18h

trying to explain to americans how to make a girl cum:

Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 20h

Eating a girl out like a hamburger

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 1d

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 1d

just being straight up 100% serious that if you are cis you should have to either pass an oral exam on whipping girl or secure the signatures of 40 trans people, one of whom is julia serano, before being allowed to shove trans shit into your tv shit

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 1d

apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience

plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic

juliaserano.medium.com

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 1d

yeah we just need the democrats to control the senate. when the democrats control the senate they will definitely do good things people like. the whole fascist project would really be on the rocks if only democrats controlled the senate. y'all'll rue the day the democrats control the senate.

117th Congress (2021–2023)
Majority Party: Democrats (48 seats)
Minority Party: Republicans (50 seats)
Other Parties: 2 Independents (all caucus with the Democrats)
Total Seats: 100

Note: From January 3, 2021, to January 20, 2021, party division stood at 51 Republicans, 46 Democrats, 2 Independents (who caucused with the Democrats), and 1 vacancy. Both Senate seats in Georgia were up for election in 2020—the Class 2 seat held by Senator David Perdue, and the Class 3 seat held by appointed senator Kelly Loeffler (special election). No candidate in either race won a majority (50%+) as required by Georgia State law, forcing run-off elections for both seats held on January 5, 2021. Senator Perdue's term expired on January 3, 2021, resulting in a vacancy until the winner of the run-off election was sworn in. Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock defeated Perdue and Loeffler, respectively, in the run-off elections and were sworn in on January 20, bringing the party division to 50 Republicans, 48 Democrats, and 2 Independents (who caucus with the Democrats). Democrats hold the majority due to the tie-breaking vote of Vice President Kamala Harris.

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118th Congress (2023–2025)
Majority Party: Democrats (47 seats)
Minority Party: Republicans (49 seats)
Other Parties: 4 Independents
Total Seats: 100

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 1d

humans are a kind of ape that loves fermenting stuff

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BooBiscuit 🎃👻 @harpomarxism.bsky.social · 2d

Once again WPATH recommendations lag behind the tgirl meta.

A screenshot of a telegraph tweet where the NHS is advocating for first-cousin marriage

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Dragon "Gay'ed Too Close to the Sun" Fish @dragonfish.bsky.social · 2d

You know, I'm starting to come around on the @katie.bzky.team hypothesis that every endocrinologist is actually Hitler.

james @james.claims · 4d

Oh he straight up said it lol

Drwillpowers • 4d ago
I don't know but one of my hobbies is trying to erase someone's gender dysphoria without actually transitioning them.
It's a rare ethical situation, because the patient has to really want that, and there has to be some plausibility to doing it.
Last really good success case was an 18-year-old who wanted to be FTM and showed up insisting that I should give them testosterone because they had aw path letter.
They had a BMI of 13.5, they were like 5'8 and 70 something pounds. It was wild. They insisted on being not anorexic. But despite how skinny and tiny this kid was, they had a relatively deep voice for an AFAB and obvious hirsutism.
They were very very mad when I wouldn't write them testosterone right out of the gate, but I had to inform them that they were actively dying, and if I didn't do anything about it they would definitely die. Got some lab testing done and it revealed what I expected. 11 beta hydroxylase deficiency.
Kid had a cortisol of 2 lol.
Treatment of the deficiency resulted in complete resolution of gender dysphoria within 30 days.

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 2d

It’s true

minty tear gas @nihilamacabre.bsky.social · 2d

A black and white photo of an edited tabloid headline. Header: "Exclusive! Frogs more popular than the church?" Large, central text, surrounded by frogs inside circles: "People want frogs not Jesus!"

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Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 1d

i need him to point to portland on an unlabeled map

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Jubilee Titan of Joy @titanofjoy.bsky.social · 1d

ITS ALMOST MY BIRTHDAY

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 1d

in what is probably the coolest and funniest pghrt.diy related fan art, @boxofmillipedes.bsky.social made a 90s-00s style .txt version of the guide.

INCLUDING MORALLY-ACCURATE ASCII GRAPHS!!!!

pghrt.diy

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Persephone @apatilonia.bsky.social · 1d

HemsWitcher looks terrible

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Brady! 🏳️‍⚧️ @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 1d

damn at $85M I feel like it would have been cheaper to just house everyone rather than continuously terrorize them for the crime of being poor

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 2d

Over the past 4 years, Seattle has dramatically increased its sweeps of homeless encampments, spending $85 m on this. Now Mayor Harrell is facing Katie Wilson in the election this fall; she’s opposing this policy.

boltsmag.org/seattle-mayo...

Sweeps of homeless people and their camps have risen steadily in recent years in Seattle.

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razorgirl @razorgirl.diy · 2d

Jesus christ

1988: she-male encounters 18: murder she-male wrote

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lydelle buster @babyshoes4cash.com · 8d

Popeye should be allowed to touch his own penis, like and repost when you agree

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 2d

Anonymous student: can you stay political unbiased in lecture

Me: the person who designed the modern mall was a Socialist Jew who fled Austria during the Third Reich and envisioned malls as utopic third spaces, but by the 1970s he denounced what capitalism and consumerism had transformed malls into

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

This is real, but I also just saw an AI-generated version of this and oh boy are we going to have some trouble verifying things in the next few years.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4d

Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train wreck interview with her and said “now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around.”

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 2d

does anyone remember what state mcbride is from? i forgor

highlighted are the two senators from Delaware

Democratic senators voting in favor of the NDAA included Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland; Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper of Colorado; Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut; Lisa Blunt Rochester and Chris Coons of Delaware; Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly of Arizona; Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock of Georgia; Mazie Hirono of Hawaii; Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan; Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota; Jacky Rosen of Nevada; Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire; Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico; Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer of New York; John Fetterman of Pennsylvania; Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island; and Tim Kaine and Mark Warner of Virginia.

Democratic senators who voted against or did not vote on the NDAA included Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin; Cory Booker and Andy Kim of New Jersey; Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray of Washington; Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin of Illinois; Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts; Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden of Oregon; Chris Murphy of Connecticut; Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff of California; Brian Schatz of Hawaii; Tina Smith of Minnesota; Chris Van Hollen of Maryland; and Peter Welch of Vermont. Independent senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont also voted no. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada did not vote.

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 2d

"To Newsom I say, fuck you, eat shit and go to hell you smarmy loser."

Amen. @assignedmedia.org

TWIBS: Governor Newsom May Be a Threat to Trans Americans — Assigned

Gavin Newsom has spent a lot of time declaring himself the greatest hero of the queer community to ever live, but his words and actions rarely seem to align these days.

www.assignedmedia.org

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