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Dustin Studios 🏳️‍🌈♾️🎮🎹🎞️ @dustinstudios.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Indigenous People's Day!

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Big Dumb Animal @bigdumbanimal.bsky.social · 2d

I really shouldn't bake after midnight but I did :)

6 banana muffins and 1 loaf of banana bread, all wrapped in parchment paper

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Big Dumb Animal @bigdumbanimal.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's Bandcamp Friday!

I'm currently working on a new album! In the meantime, you can get my stuff at disintegrationist.bandcamp.com

Tiger Tail, by The Disintegrationist

13 track album

disintegrationist.bandcamp.com

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Big Dumb Animal @bigdumbanimal.bsky.social · Aug 23

He's a decent agent provocateur but he should in no way, shape, or form have any access to more power than he currently has.

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FTMTF40PH - A Raid Train For The Transgender Law Center @ftmtf40ph.bsky.social · Aug 23

First stop on the raid train is Skye and friends! The Limit has taken over and is throwing dow in a HUGE 4 hour block! You won't wanna miss this one!

skye_is_thelimit - Twitch

I'm a passionate furry DJ who goes by "THE LIMIT" on stage, who brings high-energy beats to furcons, VRChat events, and IRL venues. Whether it's a virtual rave or a live crowd, I love creating…

www.twitch.tv

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Big Dumb Animal @bigdumbanimal.bsky.social · Aug 23

There's also this to consider. We don't want this.

bsky.app/profile/evan...

Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · Apr 2

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

Big Dumb Animal @bigdumbanimal.bsky.social · Aug 19

Actually, you know what Senator? Read this and see the real world impact of what you're proposing. You are proposing harm to LGBTQ youth who won't be able to access vital information, to sex workers, and to freedom of expression itself.

mashable.com/article/age-...

Porn censorship is going to destroy the entire internet

Age verification isn't just for adult websites.

mashable.com

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Big Dumb Animal @bigdumbanimal.bsky.social · Aug 19

This bill will only harm people.

You will only be remembered for harming vulnerable people with this bill.

Leave adults alone.

Aim to educate minors on online safety instead. Education is better protection than this ugly nonsense Puritan bill.

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Big Dumb Animal @bigdumbanimal.bsky.social · Aug 4

See also: R v. Butler, a ruling that, on its face, was an anti porn measure to protect women and children, but it criminalized the kink community itself and allowed CBPS to block shipments to LGBTQ+ bookstores for decades. If you do not consider the potential harm, it's bad legislation.

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Big Dumb Animal @bigdumbanimal.bsky.social · Aug 4

A fascist leaning Supreme Court saying that a fascist law that makes adults' data vulnerable to hackers is acceptable is not a good defense of your own terrible version of this.

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Big Dumb Animal @bigdumbanimal.bsky.social · Aug 4

This technology doesn't work. All it will do is put the data of millions of Canadians at risk.

All these laws do is hurt self expression and the rights of LGBTQ+ people because our lives get deemed pornographic by people with the levers of power. You might not have bad intentions, but others do.

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Big Dumb Animal @bigdumbanimal.bsky.social · Aug 4

It effectively destroys online privacy by requiring ISPs and app developers to give the federal government backdoor access to your data. It also changes the Canada Post act, allowing the government to read your mail.

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Big Dumb Animal @bigdumbanimal.bsky.social · Jul 31

Ourcommons.ca

I just got my MP's contact information, called, and left a polite message with a staffer saying "Bill C2 is terrible, please withdraw it." I think the guy was surprised that someone called.

So call, be polite to the staffers, and let's make this bill absolutely goddamn toxic.

Welcome to the House of Commons of Canada - House of Commons of Canada

Ourcommons.ca

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Big Dumb Animal @bigdumbanimal.bsky.social · Jun 11

Finally! Welcome!

Will the online promo contests happen here as well? :)

Big Dumb Animal @bigdumbanimal.bsky.social · May 29

I wonder how many world leaders will be enjoying some nice chicken tacos this evening 🌮🌮🌮

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Big Dumb Animal @bigdumbanimal.bsky.social · May 26

Maybe those rumors of him being a backroom gimp at the Eagle in Boston in the early 2000s are going to have a lot more substance to them.

Big Dumb Animal @bigdumbanimal.bsky.social · May 14

Anyone who signs onto this needs their online history and the contents of their storage media investigated.

Big Dumb Animal @bigdumbanimal.bsky.social · May 13

Define your musical taste in 6 artists:

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The National
Neko Case
Belly
Greg Dulli
Stars

𝘸𝘰𝘰𝘧𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘨 @woofgang.bsky.social · May 13

Define your music taste in six artists:

Beyoncé
Bad Bunny
PJ Harvey
Skinny Puppy
Tori Amos
Fats Waller

𝕳𝖊𝖗𝖒𝖎𝖙 🔞 @bideurtime.bsky.social · May 2

Define your music taste in six artists:

Björk
New Order
David Bowie
Magdalena Bay
NIN
Tennis

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Dr Chris Noone @chris-noone.bsky.social · May 10

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Big Dumb Animal @bigdumbanimal.bsky.social · May 2

In my opinion, P'tit PP is a whiny crybaby fascist loser. He derailed someone else's career in a solid conservative riding because he wants to keep living on our dime in Stornoway. He lost a 25 point lead and the Cons would have run away with the election if not for him. He's an absolute failure.

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Big Dumb Animal @bigdumbanimal.bsky.social · Apr 26

But they didn't even reach that point. The whole party needs to clean house, start pulling in leftist ideas, and learn how to fucking deliver a message.

And not fall for it when the Cons try spoiling for a fight.

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Big Dumb Animal @bigdumbanimal.bsky.social · Apr 26

I typically vote NDP federally, and since I'm an Anglophone in Quebec, my only provincial option is the Liberals. I voted Liberal federally this time because of the NDP's anti-campaign. They've disappointed me before by trying a last minute pivot to appeal to business which never. Fucking. Works...

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Big Dumb Animal @bigdumbanimal.bsky.social · Apr 26

This election *should* have been a fucking cakewalk for the NDP. I guess you can't run a bad campaign if you don't run a fucking campaign. I know everything was put on Singh's shoulders but this is a party wide problem. Hopefully they'll learn how for the next election.

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Big Dumb Animal @bigdumbanimal.bsky.social · Apr 26

www.ipolitics.ca/2025/04/25/f...

O'Toole wouldn't have entirely lost a lead that might have mirrored Chretien reducing the Tories to 2 seats. I want this to end PP's career and to shatter the Reformers in corpse paint that call themselves the Conservatives.

Ford-Poilievre rift on full display as federal race upended by strategic leaks - iPolitics

“If Poilievre loses his seat? He’s done. He’s gone,” said one Conservative source. “And so is Jenni. And if the Liberals win a majority, the knives will be out for Jenni as well. There’ll have to be a...

www.ipolitics.ca

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Big Dumb Animal @bigdumbanimal.bsky.social · Apr 18

Either way, one of them needs a travel show on Dropout! :)

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