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Please don't add me to any starter packs without asking first My goal is to be as kind as I can, but still curb-stomp racists, bigots, sexist, & anti-LGBTQIA+ jerks, & fight for abortion rights #MMIWG2S **A follow back isn't an invitation to DM.**

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CL (says protect trans kids and adults) @clc1905.bsky.social · Jan 6

This thread has critical information for folks who are lgbtq+, especially trans. Please share it widely so people can get the information they need to make careful, well considered decisions.

Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · Jan 1

Here’s the official rights you have under the Global Convention on Human Rights. Bear in mind some countries [particularly Western ones] will be reluctant to upset the new US far right administration: www.unhcr.org/ie/what-we-d...

LGBTIQ+ persons | UNHCR Ireland

At UNHCR we work to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) refugees, asylum-seekers, stateless and internally displaced people.

www.unhcr.org

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ChrisInLondon2 @chrisinlondon.bsky.social · 1h

Source:
Https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/10/10/neighbor-shielded-7-year-old-during-south-shore-federal-raid-i-didnt-want-them-to-take-her

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid, one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before t...

www.wbez.org

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 1h

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CL (says protect trans kids and adults) @clc1905.bsky.social · 46m

Text says, "This is not the time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time. This is what Joe Strummer trained you for for."

The quote is from Henry Rollins and the picture is in black and white and features Joe Strummer flipping off the camera.

CL (says protect trans kids and adults) @clc1905.bsky.social · 1h

And the rest of us will have to hear about the "terrible male loneliness epidemic™" ad nauseam.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 1h

This remake of Cyrano stinks.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 7h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · Jun 22

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time."
Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed.
That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

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CL (says protect trans kids and adults) @clc1905.bsky.social · 7h

::Offering alternate mom hugs to help counter balance the harm your mom causes::
🫂🫂🫂

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h

ICE spent $800K on vans with stingray tech that collects data from all nearby phones, even yours. These devices mimic cell towers to track locations and intercept communications. Oversight and transparency are needed now.

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CL (says protect trans kids and adults) @clc1905.bsky.social · 8h

You think it's right to forgive people who are trying to kill our loved ones?
Who are ripping families apart? Who are kidnapping people right off the streets and into gulags?

Do you really think that forgiving Hitler's henchmen would have been a good thing?

No quarter given to Nazis. Period.

CL (says protect trans kids and adults) @clc1905.bsky.social · 8h

The only time more cops are a good thing...

From the movie Return Of The Living Dead (1985)- a zombie radios into the police station to send more cops so the zombies can eat their brains.

Brrrraaaiiinzzzz!!!

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Profolus @profolus.com · 8h

KONSYSE: Lucid dreamers tend to have a larger anterior prefrontal cortex—an area in the brain that enables self-reflection or metacognition. They are more likely to self-reflect and have a considerable degree of personal awareness when they are awake.

Link Between Lucid Dreaming and Metacognition — Konsyse

Researchers discovered lucid dreaming relates to larger anterior prefrontal cortex—a brain area associated with metacognition.

www.konsyse.com

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Rhymers gonna rhyme @rhymer29.bsky.social · 17h

For all wannabe rhymers or frogs
All inflatifa animals, cats and dogs
Silliness and fun drives fascists mad
Show your joy, dont be sad
Dancing and singing dont look like a warzone
Party for ICE and send them home
Dont be tempted, dont play their game
Send them giggling, or full of shame

🦝🥳🦁🥳🐺🐶🐼🥳🐭🐸🐔

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 1d

“Shame! Shame! Free the Squirrel! Free the Squirrel”

Back in the gang ridden streets of Portland, ICE just arrested a girl wearing a “dangerous” inflatable Squirrel without provocation.

She’s fallen several times having been cuffed and pushed to walked faster than the suit will allow.

#Portland

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A.D.🍀🦩 @adwills.bsky.social · 1d

It's been a long week.

Rest here, weary creative.

You deserve it.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 22h

🧵 When I draw I am greatly influenced by Irish mythology, culture & landscape. This is my photo of Kerry where, ancient the Bohan’s lived for a thousand years.

You can’t escape your past, as you can see in my art as you scroll down this thread & see my one-off ink on paper drawings [1]

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 20h

If ICE was doing to unlicensed pets—dogs and cats—what they’re doing to human beings, the outrage would be exponentially more ferocious

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Sex Crazed Salt Shaker of Death @dsmdexter.bsky.social · 23h

Being a magat is like being a cigarette smoker. Whatever stupid reason you had for starting doesn't matter. You are still doing it. And whatever excuse you have for continuing, it is a made-up rationalization. And you look stupid and stink to anyone with a functional brain.

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BronSays @bronsays.bsky.social · 21h

www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Darya Minovi pointed to that pending change as a motivation for not publishing the PFNA study. “If you’re trying to roll back drinking water standards, you probably don’t want to release information that makes the case for why those standards are necessary,”

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

www.propublica.org

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CL (says protect trans kids and adults) @clc1905.bsky.social · 20h

I can only hope that one day he is able to see that /he/ is the antichrist- the root of so much evil.

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CL (says protect trans kids and adults) @clc1905.bsky.social · 1d

It's infuriating, insulting, harmful, and deeply wrong.

There are so many people who will take what he is saying as the truth and the ongoing harm will be immeasurable.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

Each week, we release the Lavender Ledger, covering stories that crossed our desk that other journalists got to before us. These are the biggest stories this week that you did not see at EITM.

This week's LavLedge covers UK trans wait times, a NY roller derby legal victory, and fake SCOTUS cases.

The Lavender Ledger: Your Strategic LGBTQ+ Reader By Erin In The Morning

Our service for the week to cover the news we did not carry but do not want you to miss.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 1d

October 11th-18th is National Hate Crime Awareness Week. Between 2023 – 2024, Galop saw a 100% increase in LGBT+ people accessing help for Hate Crime

If you have experienced LGBT+ hate and would like support you can contact Galop:
0800 999 5428
[email protected]
galop.org.uk
Or on the Zoteria app

Image shows a red stop sign that reads "Stop Hate" Text reads: International Hate Crime Awareness Week Oct 11th-18th

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Matthew King @matthewkingart.bsky.social · 2d

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CL (says protect trans kids and adults) @clc1905.bsky.social · 1d

Well said.

What does it say about the state of politics that people act like any of that is negotiable?!?

That should be the bare, damn minimum, yet we're told to compromise on even those most basic things, and by other Dems no less.

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