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Jesse Pohlman (He/Him)

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Queer, Pagan Sci-Fi/Fantasy author from Long Island, NY. Recovering Teacher, ex-Lifeguard. Not a big fan of AI "art" unless it's made by a real-deal AGI Sapience that doesn't yet exist. Ask before DMing, please. https://www.JPohlmanWriting.com/about

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Jesse Pohlman (He/Him) @jpohlmanwriting.com · Nov 10

Hi there, I'm Jesse Pohlman. I'm a #Queer #Pagan author from Long Island, New York. I write #SciFi/#Fantasy. 📌

You can read all about my background/bio here: jpohlmanwriting.com/about

I tend to use my "Pinned Post" to track accomplishments, events, etc as a thread.🧵

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Jesse Pohlman (He/Him) @jpohlmanwriting.com · 1h

Okay, #hunterxhunter people. Togashi knew EXACTLY what he was doing with Chapter 420 featuring Prince Luzurus looking like this.

Yoshihiro Togashi's announcement that Chapter 420 has its dialogue inserted, featuring Prince Luzurus looking like what can only be described as "very 420." He's a known smoker of some substance in the HunterXHunter manga.

Jesse Pohlman (He/Him) @jpohlmanwriting.com · 1h

In case you missed it the first time:

theweeklyfreeporter.blogspot.com/2025/10/twf-...

(Yes, I embedded a Ryan Hall video and it's grabbing that for a preview image. Apologies.)

TWF 357: Major Storm Incoming This Weekend (10/10/2025)

Hello, Freeport (and the whole of Long Island, and the north-east in general), I hope this post finds you well. While I'm no longer weekly ...

theweeklyfreeporter.blogspot.com

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 2h

I think Pritzker is great in that he's rising to this moment in Chicago. I like that. I like him in that.

Before I'm all 'ooo Pritzker for Prez' tho, I would need to know a lot more about him.

And I think many of you need to be cautious in the desperation for wanting a hero to rise to the moment

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Jesse Pohlman (He/Him) @jpohlmanwriting.com · 4h

Gonna try to take my mind off some unpleasantness with some #FinalFantasyTactics! Much love!

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Well, hello, there! Good day, and thank you for joining me! I'm FrostPDP, I'm a Queer, Pagan author, and I mostly just play video games on this channel. All of my videos are recorded in HD, general...

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Jesse Pohlman (He/Him) @jpohlmanwriting.com · 4h

I've had a similar experience.

If I didn't have access to taking tests on a computer when I was in high school, I never would have graduated. I needed the accommodation for a fine motor skill impairment and it helped tremendously.

Then consider the years of occupational therapy, etc, and...Yeah.

Mandi 🦄🎀🩵🩷 @sagegnosis.bsky.social · 4h

I would remotely not be where I am today as a functioning adult if I had not received specialized education in pre-k through 1st grade due to my severe ADHD. Seeing this kind of news infuriates me

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 8h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Mandi 🦄🎀🩵🩷 @sagegnosis.bsky.social · 4h

I would remotely not be where I am today as a functioning adult if I had not received specialized education in pre-k through 1st grade due to my severe ADHD. Seeing this kind of news infuriates me

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 8h

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 14h

🌈 Today is #NationalComingOutDay!

Whether you’re out, not out, questioning, or can’t share your truth safely, you’re valid, seen, loved and part of community regardless of how visible you are.

Coming out is personal. Be proud of who you are, in whatever way feels right for you. ❤️

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 7h

Ultimately what it comes down to is a worldview that denies the very notion of any right to bodily autonomy, which can only lead to sexual predation. There’s really nowhere else it can go

That’s why fighting it *has* to be about bodily autonomy, which is why it’s inextricable from trans liberation

Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 7h

On pedocon theory: why movement conservativism is inextricably entwined with paedophilia (and why the POTUS is probably a paedophile too):
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-talk-about-pedocon-theory/

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 6h

just re-watched V for Vendetta on the plane and I couldn't help but reimagine that final scene with all those people wearing inflatable frog costumes rather than Guy Fawkes masks

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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 6h

Remember, kids: all clothing is unisex if you try hard enough.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10h

The prosecution of Tish James is the product of a broken system that allows lawless billionaires to rule alongside corrupt politicians.

It’s as much a story of New York City as Washington, D.C.

But it's here in New York where a new era of politics will be born.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 7h

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 9h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Jesse Pohlman (He/Him) @jpohlmanwriting.com · 7h

Hiyas. Not a mutual but I don't mind being a hookup for a stranger. Not 100% sure I know how they work but if you wanna DM me or something I'll pass what's posted along? :)

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12h

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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Jesse Pohlman (He/Him) @jpohlmanwriting.com · 20h

Innnnteresting.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Manny Suazo @smokyburnout.bsky.social · 23h

topical

a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

ALT: a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 1d

This is also a good illustration of why, when we talk abt US westward expansion (itself a colonial process), we also need to be talking abt empire.

T. J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 1d

Doomscrolling break!
I imagine every historian has a list of Most Neglected Aspect of History. I welcome them in the replies. Here's a thread on my candidate:

The California steamship lines from 1849–1869, during the gold rush until the first transcontinental railroad's completion.

My case:
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Jesse Pohlman (He/Him) @jpohlmanwriting.com · 23h

A new The Weekly Freeporter about the storm coming this weekend. Be prepared, be safe. (Yes, Google is grabbing an embedded Ryan Hall video's thumbnail and using that as the image.)

theweeklyfreeporter.blogspot.com/2025/10/twf-...

#LongIsland #Noreaster #NYC

TWF 357: Major Storm Incoming This Weekend (10/10/2025)

Hello, Freeport (and the whole of Long Island, and the north-east in general), I hope this post finds you well. While I'm no longer weekly ...

theweeklyfreeporter.blogspot.com

Jesse Pohlman (He/Him) @jpohlmanwriting.com · 1d

Nice work and congrats!

(But seriously, be safe)

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 1d

stephen miller doesn’t have presidential immunity.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...