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Savika 🏳️‍⚧️ @boowriter.bsky.social · 6h

I wrote another body-horror short story. It got mommy issues, dolls, mutilation, isolation and gore. Sounds like fun? Only one way to know for sure~

www.scribblehub.com/read/1895618...

savikawrites.itch.io/patchwork

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Savika 🏳️‍⚧️ @boowriter.bsky.social · 6h

I wrote another body-horror short story. It got mommy issues, dolls, mutilation, isolation and gore. Sounds like fun? Only one way to know for sure~

www.scribblehub.com/read/1895618...

savikawrites.itch.io/patchwork

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Savika 🏳️‍⚧️ @boowriter.bsky.social · 6h

30-something? I kinda fell off as the year went on but that's still way more than I honestly expected I'd get through. And there's still 2 months left too!

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 13h

I feel like this theory also explains why the “Trump is weird” approach that Walz hit on last year was so effective and why everything fell apart once the consultants got involved and told him to act normal.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 14h

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Holly Dittus @hdittus13.bsky.social · 8h

woke up as a girl. new page. patreon.
patreon.com/tirkom

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 13h

We’ve tried showing both halves of Jared Leto’s face and we’re all out of ideas

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 16h

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19h

And now Stonewall National Monument under Trump has erased the very thing she fought for.

Love the support, Zohran. Thanks, sincerely.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Jul 10

6. In one glaring example, Sylvia Rivera’s section originally stated, “At a young age, Sylvia began fighting for gay and transgender rights.” The revised version read, “gay and rights,” with the word “transgender” removed entirely, rendering the sentence nonsensical:

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 19h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 16h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 22h

She broke 10k!

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Savika 🏳️‍⚧️ @boowriter.bsky.social · 21h

I had to re-read this ten times and I'm still not sure what it's about other than wasting money

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

DHS default is to lie about every encounter. Which is why they’re trying to criminalize recording them.

CHICAGO (WGN) - A WGN creative services department employee was detained by two
Border Patrol officers and later released after federal agents swarmed a busy intersection on Chicago's North Side Friday morning, at the height of rush hour.
WGN is not naming the employee, as station policy requires blurring faces and not identifying those who have not been charged with a crime.
Witnesses on site who captured the incident on video spoke to WGN about the moments leading up to the staffer's detainment.

Thomas added that when he made his way down to the scene, around 8:30 Friday morning, he realized there was another person already detained inside the minivan being used by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
"I didn't get his name, although I asked for his name," Thomas said. "He didn't speak very good English. They claimed that the WGN employee was obstructing justice, even though she was, like all of us, just standing there, taking video.'
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Tricia McLaughlin ®
@TriciaOhio
X.com
She was arrested for throwing objects at law enforcement.
Heartland Signal D @HeartlandSignal • 3h
BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

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Savika 🏳️‍⚧️ @boowriter.bsky.social · 21h

Ugh I'm in a bad head space. I only managed to write like... Barely a paragraph. Couldn't even draw. Im tired...

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nic.tattoos @nicterhorst.com · 1d

This means if you're in the UK and haven't signed this yet, please do. At 100k signatures they have to discuss it again.

Literally the least you can do!!

GamesMarket @gamesmarkt.bsky.social · 1d

UK Gouvernment: Payment Processors Can Ban NSFW Content
According to the UK treasury, payment processors are in the right and the gouvernment has no plans to step in. This puts it in direct contrast to what artists and the UK games industry have asked for.
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 1d

R. Durbin- IL
C. Murphy- CT
J. Ossof- GA
J. Shaheen- NH
S. Whitehouse- RI
J. Reed- RI
T. Kaine-VA
M. Warner-VA
C. Coons- DE
C. Cortez Masto- NV

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Find Your Representative

Find your representatives. Learn how to find and connect with them. Stay informed about their bills, committees, and contributions.

www.commoncause.org

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 1d

#SaveSpeech
Democrats that need to be reprimanded for cosponsoring KOSA:

J. Hickenlooper- CO
A. Klobuchar- MN
B. Lujan- NM
B. Schatz- HI
M. Hirono- HI
G. Peters- MI
J. Fetterman- PA
R. Blumenthal- CT
C. Schumer- NY
M. Hassan- NH
M. Kelly- AZ
P. Welch- VT

[more names + links continued below]

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megasoups.bsky.social @megasoups.bsky.social · 1d

KOSA just got a bunch of new cosponsors so, y'all, kindly tell them to knock it the fuck off.
Make this bill unpassable for the sake of keeping the open internet, enough of this censorship BS and "protect the children" excuses.

#savespeech #KOSA #stopkosa

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

god can i attest to the power of FFS and how it can improve a trans woman’s life. Please, if you can, help one of my best friends Aria. she needs this as much as i did and y’all came through for me 🙏

gofund.me/2fafddbcf

Donate to Support A Trans Woman's Gender Affirming Surgery, organized by Aria Balraj

Hi! My name is Aria, and I'm trying to raise funds so I can finally fix u… Aria Balraj needs your support for Support A Trans Woman's Gender Affirming Surgery

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Margaret Sherry XVX♾️⚢ 🏴 @mutantmillenium.bsky.social · 1d

Apple Music sounds better anyways. Bandcamp has a lot of smaller artists and you can buy directly! So many ways to listen to music!

demon grrl 😈🏳️‍⚧️ @demongrrl.gay · 1d

seriously

for fucks sake

cancel your spotify subscription

@PopBase on Twitter "Spotify teams up with ChatGPT to offer personalized recommendations."

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Else @else.social · 1d

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Blood is prettier outside the body. I learned that lesson young, when my father, the monster, still stalked the plains in search of fresh prey. His preferences were incorrect, however. He cared about volume—lakes of blood impregnated with the anti-clotting compounds that our family's bodies so copiously produce, blood gushing down altars through carefully carved channels, blood divorced from its source so that he could forget the bodies that produced it. He reveled in the metallic tang of it, the joy of immersing his body in it to feel the ebbing warmth and the tender touch of half-formed clots against his swollen dick, and, yes, the taste of it in on his tongue.

My father hated bodies. He hated to be reminded of the source of blood, and this was, I think, the source of much of his cruelty. He needed what his victims gave him, and he hated them for that.

He was, as I have said, incorrect, and it was that flaw which led to his downfall.

Sometimes I like to take one of my concubines—the ones I don't mind killing, of course—down to the crypt to fuck and bleed her atop his sarcophagus. He hates the scent of it, the squishy sounds bodies make, the moans and whimpers, and, more than any of that, the blood trickling down the slowly warming metal. His lips cannot reach the slightest drop of it, I made sure of that, but the sound of him bucking and struggling against his chains is as potent an aphrodisiac as the sight of those first drops of blood welling up from freshly cut skin, red and fragrant and not yet dripping down to stain the ground below. The sight of it—the thought of it!—is so captivating, so compelling; it fills me with heat, makes me long for the taste of it, the joy of adding fresh cuts, of burying myself in my victim's body, of filling myself with her, devouring her until nothing remains but my pleasure—!

But I forget myself. That is not the story I mean to tell you, my dear hunter, though someday I will show you precisely what I mean.

I am not the last of my family. I assure you that we can die, though only with great difficulty, and I expect that knowledge will do more to tempt your visit to my lands than anything else I can offer. You could never reject a challenge when I knew you, and I do not expect that the decades have changed that. Perhaps you have grown more cautious, and certainly you have shaped yourself into a more skillful weapon, because you remain alive even as the list of your accomplishments has grown deliciously unwieldy. How many monsters you have triumphed over, my dear hunter? How many beasts and witches have died upon your blades? Where were you in '87, when my agents couldn't find the slightest trace of you upon this earth?

I'm sure that you'll tell me when you finally visit. I will *make you* tell me.

But in any case—my father still lives, as I said. It pleased him to kill his own father, and I understand that his bones were immersed in molten lead and buried somewhere far from the heat of blood; the habits of a less enlightened age. My solitary brother is a boor, and I hope very much that you will meet and dispatch him before I make you mine, but my sisters are lovely things. I think you will enjoy their company, despite their tastes being far less refined than my own.

You may wonder why I am telling you this now, my dear hunter, when I said so little about myself during our time together at university. I remember how you and the rest of our friends used to tease me with increasingly outlandish guesses—the prince of a distant country, a woodcutter's savant daughter, a merchant's orphan heir—what a silly game! Sometimes I was tempted to simply tell you all the truth, though I do not think I would have survived long afterward. I was so careful, my dear hunter. I had to be.

I do not any more.

I understand that you stayed in contact with many of our old friends. I have read many of the letters you sent them. Do you wonder why fewer and fewer of them are able to reply?

I have taken pains to ensure that this letter will find you, whether within weeks or months or years. My agents are loyal and determined, and they know that their own families' fates depend on their success. The bonds of family are such delicious things, and I adore the taste of a daughter's lifeblood pooling between her mother's thighs ...

But I won't try to explain that to you. Not yet. Someday I'll make you understand.

If all has gone well there is a map attached to this letter; if not you will simply have to work a bit harder to find me. I think I have given you more than enough reason to—you always were such a moral woman, so infatuated with your own idea of what the world should be, and I know that time has only made you more so. I think that knowing what I am, what I have *always* been, will eat away at you like an ulcer until you finally come to visit me, to put an end to me—

And then, my dear hunter, I will make you mine.

Sincerely yours,
Silvana Frost, Duchess of Rimwald

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Kitkat 🔞 @collarplz.bsky.social · Jul 3

The Struggle 💤

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demon grrl 😈🏳️‍⚧️ @demongrrl.gay · 1d

seriously

for fucks sake

cancel your spotify subscription

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LetUsAllExist (🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🎈🥬) @letusallexist.bsky.social · 1d

Here's my updated script (refined through calling a few times,) to tidy things up for time, and specifically apply to both of them.

Call daily if possible!

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 1d

#SaveSpeech

KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total

You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP

The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Please call DAILY

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Miji 🔞· ʀᴇɴᴍᴇɪ ʙʀᴀɪɴʀᴏᴛ ᴇʀᴀ @mijikaaitan.bsky.social · 1d

Yall have got to start spreading this like wildfire and start locking in

Otherwise if not, it will be too late and it’s goodbye to our internet safety and privacy forever

I am dead serious, please please PLEASE raise hell and spread awareness on this. Please don’t ignore this

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 1d

#SaveSpeech

KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total

You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP

The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Please call DAILY

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