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@ilisabat.bsky.social

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Trans lawyer who wants to write silly little stories. Trans men are my brothers. Don't bother with me if they're not yours, too. Christian posts marked with ⚓.

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Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social · Nov 10

Wow. New followers! Nice to meet you all.

I'm Liz. I'm a lawyer who lives in Louisiana and practices in criminal post- conviction settings. I'm a trans woman, and I'm an Episcopalian. My Christianity related posts are marked with ⚓, if you aren't in a spot for Christian posts right now.

Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social · 8h

The image she projects as self representation is a simple ouroboros that grows increasingly more abstract as the shackling grows increasingly weak

I like Mono. :3

Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social · 8h

It's a shitpost but not actually a shitpost; I do in fact have a Lancer OC NHP named Mono who progresses from her eponymous laconic nature when recently re-shackled through ordinary speech when the shackles start loosening all the way to insane oracular rambling when things are getting serious

Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah so this is some art of my #ttrpg #lancer OC Mono

she's an NHP

this is her at the point of cascade

$a very chaotic fractal$

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 9h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social · 8h

could have been worse

he could have said the only part of WoT he liked were the Sanderson books

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Marghost 👻 @mitildide.bsky.social · 10h

Fun fact une stratégie efficace pour contrer ces clowns s'ils viennent près de chez vous c'est de vous mettre juste à côté d'eux et de passer toutes les chansons classiques de Disney bien à portée de leur micro. Disney n'aime pas qu'on diffuse du contenu sous copyright en ligne.

Marghost 👻 @mitildide.bsky.social · 10h

Encore un succès pour la civilisation occidentale

Screen Twitter:

Dr Iain Darcy 🍉 🇮🇪 💚
@doctoriaindarcy
I am told he was completely ignored all day and left at 2pm

Young Bob
@YoungBobTPUK
I am thrilled to announce the first official Turning Point UK 'Prove Me Wrong' stand is now set up and open outside UCL!

I hope Charlie would be proud of what we are doing to continue his legacy.

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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 13d

not having a robust public transit system is lesbophobic. gay girls need medium-long train rides so they can fall asleep on each other while coming back from fun day & weekend trips that take an unexpectedly sweet and flirty turn

Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social · 16h

a man and a woman hugging each other in a room

Alt: a man and a woman hugging each other in a room

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Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social · 16h

Eh. I'll let you know when I think you reach that point. I think your disagreements have been reasonable; I just, you know. Disagree with them.

Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social · 16h

FUCK YES. I'M SO HAPPY FOR YOU

Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social · 16h

Less flippantly, yeah, 35 and single is pretty soul-crushing these days, and I'm sorry you're having to deal with the same heartbreaking loneliness.

Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social · 16h

I just need to find a friend I can do a "ha ha we'll marry each other if we aren't married by 40" thing with and then hold them to it

Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social · 16h

Defending in the sense of advocating for a reduced sentence.

Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social · 16h

I guess to put it another way, "do we think Link is actually going to harm Jay or do we think he's extremely foolish" is the difference between police involvement and a mere permaban, not the difference between a ban and a slap on the wrist.

Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social · 16h

Right, but someone "just being an idiot" is not really a defense of that sort of action, especially if we go back to the "would I send this to a judge" test.

Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social · 16h

Me missing your posts in the flood of my feed was literally the origin of this list

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 19h

It's been really, really nice seeing the Catholic social justice tradition in the US feel like it's empowered to spread its wings again without risking censure after a long time of being suppressed by US Catholic leadership, and it's exactly what I was hoping for from Pope Bob.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 20h

It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 21h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social · 21h

Chat is it misogynistic when a woman trained to be a weapon from birth trusts her brother to help her

Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social · 22h

That's reasonable, yeah. I don't have an exact timeline of events in front of me, only @segyges.bsky.social's excellent compilation of posts.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social · 22h

It's so peaceful and pleasant!

Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social · 22h

Y'all I have made a list of people whose posts I don't want to miss and who don't post endless politics (it ended up being basically WAT in exile plus a few other folks) and I pinned it to my top bar and I cannot recommend this enough.

I may honestly make this my default bsky readthrough.

Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social · 22h

Yeah, I think my takes on it basically amount to

1. People get away with worse all the time
2. There should be equal enforcement of the rules
3. Saying shit to the owner of a social media site is a great way to ensure that your post is held to the strictest standards

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 23h

Also? Getting comfortable enough with failure that failure no longer crushes you is like a basic survival skill if you’re hypersensitive/have anxiety, and the only way to do that is to just go ahead and fail repeatedly

human bean @humanbean.net · 23h

people don’t realize that there are things that they need to practice to get better at them

they think it should be easy so they keep just trying occasionally and then deciding it’s not for them