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Aranock, 4 of Ravens

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Disabled, nonbinary trans woman(she/they/fae), ace, lesbian, artist, Writes and creates with Tirrrb and Jessie Gender, Video essays: https://youtube.com/@Aranock Other links: https://linktr.ee/Aranock PFP by my friend https://www.tumblr.com/lowdowndandy

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Aranock, 4 of Ravens @aranock.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hi new followers! I'm Aranock I'm a disabled trans artist who mostly makes video essays on my own channel. I also sometimes write, edit and perform for others' videos, primarily @jessiegender.bsky.social.
My art's mostly known for making people cry, in depth media analysis and queer theory 💜

Aranock

Hi I'm Aranock, she/they pronouns. I am a disabled nonbinary trans woman, digital artist, and video essayist existing in so called Canada. I also write for Jessie Gender, edit for Tirrrb and help behi...

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crystalavohkii.bsky.social @crystalavohkii.bsky.social · 10h

A couple people asked for evidence, so:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbwi...
this is the biggest surviving thing, there used to be a really long twitter thread but the person who made it got harassed off the internet

MatPat being Transphobic for Two Minutes (GAMETHEORY)

YouTube video by Molochs Meat

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Jazzy Oliver - Voice Actress @ladyjazzington.bsky.social · 16h

BUT HEY!

THAT'S JUST A Segway to remind you that the FNAF creator/this movie's screenwriter, Scott Cawthon, donates the money he makes from FNAF stuff to far right politicians, many of whom are currently trying to make things worse for everyone, specifically trans people. Don't support this film.

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 16h

MatPat has been cast as Toy Bonnie in ‘FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDYS 2’

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 1d

Gamers’ brains are so cooked dude. The woman on the right is gorgeous and beautiful. Straight gamer men literally can’t find normal women attractive anymore.

Designed With
Gamers In Mind Designed With
Activists In Mind

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 12h

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

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 13h

It is not too late for you to start wearing a mask in public.

It is not too late for you to start advocating clean air.

It is not too late for you to learn how to build your own air filters or to tap in with folks already doing so.

They want you sick. They want your neighbors sick. Tell them no.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 1d

helping my friend Mohammed raise money for food and other expenses during the ceasefire ❤️ he's only $45 away from reaching 50% of his goal

Donate to Help Mohammed and his family from famine, organized by April m

My name is April from Chicago and I am a US citizen organising this fundraiser on beh… April m needs your support for Help Mohammed and his family from famine

gofund.me

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 1d

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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Justin McElroy @thoughtographic.bsky.social · 1d

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Aranock, 4 of Ravens @aranock.bsky.social · 22h

If people want to help with affording groceries and medications I'd greatly appreciate it. My chronic illness has been severe lately due to stress from life difficulties and its impacted my ability to work; ko-fi.com/aranock

Buy Aranock a Coffee

Become a supporter of Aranock today!

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ari 💫 @arimelody.space · 1d

we are seeing it right here on bluesky, where it's deemed perfectly okay to shelter demonstrable bad actors because "they haven't done anything wrong *here*".

the nazi bar analogy continues to ring. deafeningly.

the people don't want a nazi bar. what will you do if all the good people leave?

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss is such a hack that she can't even do her wrecking in an original way

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 1d

If you have Twitch Prime, they're giving away XCOM 2 for free this week. It's a code for GOG.

If you already have XCOM 2, grab the code and give it to someone else who doesn't. It's a super great game and people need happy-making things now.

SHARE THE THINGS.

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 1d

Asserting that a woman is by default sexually available to men and it's "exclusionary", "biphobic", or even "TERFy" to say that she's a lesbian is common in discussions of queer media.

Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 1d

sexuality discourse in fandom is hardly pressing but the whole thing is really fucking difficult as a lesbian (especially when you consider that artists and writers have been harassed and doxxed for “getting it wrong”) who likes art and media.

Lesbian is the “bi-erasure” sexuality to fandomites

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 2

the full production is available to view on archive.org

archive.org/details/xebp...

Great Performances - Much Ado About Nothing : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

For the first time in over four decades, Great Performances presents a Public Theater production recorded live at Free Shakespeare in the Park. After a highly...

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Aranock, 4 of Ravens @aranock.bsky.social · 1d

I just wet a cloth with warm water and clean it all off and then dry it off and once Ive done that he cleans himself. Hes just a baby.

My black cat Cilian flopped on the bathroom floor, his green eyes staring off into the distance. A mangy towel he uses for napping beside him(he rips towels off hooks if you dont give him one)

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Aranock, 4 of Ravens @aranock.bsky.social · 1d

Cilian very occasionally pees directly on his back foot, he knows that when he does this I will clean his foot, hes also figured out that this must occur in the bathroom. So now he just waits for me in the tub when it happens cause he knows I'll help him 🥺

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Jón Kristinsson @jonkk.bsky.social · Sep 2

Every time someone opens their mouth to hype AI, just google “name of person/company invests in AI” and you’ll *always* find something. Every time.

Jón Kristinsson @jonkk.bsky.social · Sep 2

👇 The reason:

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History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 2d

Now it's a day later and the APTN and CBC Indigenous news sites still have no story about, or even mention in another story of Israel abducting, in international waters, a First Nations person who has Canadian citizenship.

canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 3d

Mskwaasin Agnew (Dene/Cree, Salt River First Nation) was among the humanitarians on board Conscience that was illegally boarded by Israel in international waters.
We are asking everyone to contact the Canadian Government (email addresses & phone numbers on the poster)
#EyesOnGaza #EndGazaBlockade

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 2d

when I worked at Frye's, their metrics were based on how many Norton subs they sold. to the point they had us essentially giving them away. conning customers into adding Norton they didn't want to purchases that made us no money

anyway, time is a flat circle

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 4d

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> Lol the timing; I work in IT for a large publishing company - and my god the meetings with microsoft sales team is all AI AI AI COPILOT COPILOT COPILOT.
> I had to flat out tell their VP we're not buying any fucking copilot - whereupon she revealed that the only thing she is being measured on for Q4 is sales of copilot, so if that's off the table the conversation is not interesting. LMAO

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

i think it is fair to request a statement from @jay.bsky.team on TRANS PEOPLE and where we fit in on @bsky.app.

i think as a transgender journalist, it's acceptable and makes sense for me to ask this

and so, the question, am i not a person as a trans girl and do i not deserve to feel safe here?

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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