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_______________________________ @filipamv.bsky.social · Jul 7

Last year, the universe sent me a message: it told me to start going to queer raves, and so I did.

It’s been a good time!

I wrote a retrospective on 2024, the year I discovered that I like dancing, plus reflections on parenting, music, fascism, fashion, and trans joy:

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My Year of Raves

In my third year of being trans, I discovered that I like dancing. This was a surprise. Dancing is meditative, therapeutic – healing even. Now I try to go dancing as often as I can. This the story of ...

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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_______________________________ @filipamv.bsky.social · 5h

listen if we’re very lucky we’ll look back on it as a heroic hail mary; if we’re unlucky it’ll be banned for being degenerate art

_______________________________ @filipamv.bsky.social · 15h

may you find your temporary relief when jacking it. the need to do it constantly settles down after a couple years lol

_______________________________ @filipamv.bsky.social · 15h

a tshirt would lightly graze my body and it’d become due for a wash

_______________________________ @filipamv.bsky.social · 15h

do you find you sweat more or you’re just muskier? i was on a solid 1-2 showers a day back when i was on t

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_______________________________ @filipamv.bsky.social · 15h

bro how powerful are these jerk sessions???

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_______________________________ @filipamv.bsky.social · 20h

it’s such a self-own that i live like this but it’s true

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 23h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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_______________________________ @filipamv.bsky.social · 1d

i do all my writing in a custom note taking app i wrote that stores every single change and syncs across computers in git. you’ve no idea how much restraint i’ve shown, veins bulging eyes popping out of my sockets here

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Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · 1d

YOU HEARD THEM

Meme image of Shinji from Evangelion leaning forward in a folding chair with his heads in his hands. Text around him reads "GET IN THE FUCKING FROG" and there are two depictions of someone in inflatable frog suits

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_______________________________ @filipamv.bsky.social · 1d

subscribing to the verge so i can read your writing but trying to filter out all the gadget stuff

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Krinkle @krinkle.bsky.social · 2d

for years i was told, you can google that. You should probably google that. Instead of answering your question i will link you to "let me google that for you dot com" but look at us now. Google's shit and only I, the lazy oaf, am prepared for this awful new world where only people can be trusted

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_______________________________ @filipamv.bsky.social · 2d

i’m old i had to raw dog it

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_______________________________ @filipamv.bsky.social · 2d

latex is filled with eldritch abominations where if you fuck up the incantation your document is printed in the devil’s alphabet

just makes rolling back easier!

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_______________________________ @filipamv.bsky.social · 2d

also you could host it on github* pages by pointing the feature to your export folder fwiw

*my views do not represent my employer’s views, but god does want you to have a sex change

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_______________________________ @filipamv.bsky.social · 2d

girl you did this in latex shush

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_______________________________ @filipamv.bsky.social · 2d

you did it WITHOUT source control??

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_______________________________ @filipamv.bsky.social · 2d

this is the thing that drives me kinda nuts broseph LASERED OFF HIS BEARD come on!!!! what is he doing!!!

_______________________________ @filipamv.bsky.social · 2d

by all means add spam filters for the team but… the public labeling thing still feels so weird and rife for abuse. waiting to be branded with a scarlet letter somehow

_______________________________ @filipamv.bsky.social · 3d

did we read the same post from RubyCentral? it's like you're doubling down on the hit job aspect.

_______________________________ @filipamv.bsky.social · 3d

2015 was a lot less stressful in a lot of ways

_______________________________ @filipamv.bsky.social · 3d

i didn't think i had any issues with anxiety before 2025 so this tracks tbh

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 3d

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it?

Chiitan forever

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 4d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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_______________________________ @filipamv.bsky.social · 3d

i dunno i grew up catholic for me part of the dissonance is reconciling how a kinda evil institution that for me represents stifling conservatism

is on the balance pretty OK next to the folks who don’t believe in climate change or evolution or love to express cruelty as a hobby

_______________________________ @filipamv.bsky.social · 3d

i’m not religious myself so i am inclined to agree but within this specific worldview the only way to secure salvation for your eternal soul is to do good works, that’s what god wants you to do

whereas in other christian sects belief in of itself is sufficient, accept jesus in your heart and done