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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 49m

A woman says "hi, I'm here for the Magic: The Gathering tournament." A man at the registration booth says "of course. and ma'am I hope it's not too presumptious of me to say that your transition is going incredible." The woman says 'uh... I'm cis actually." Another man comes up and says "hi... wow ma'am your transition..." The first man interrupts him shouting "Tony! No!"

Mewyabby @mewyabby.bsky.social · 9h

I just want the girls to know the absurdity of the original joke and further emphasize the production element. RCBG is a hit for many reasons.

Also that lack of sexual function is a historical + current form of repression against trans people. Younger trans often don't know it.

Nice username btw!

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Mewyabby @mewyabby.bsky.social · 10h

From the Wikipedia page for Riff at the end of the summary segment:

"Use of the term has extended to comedy, where riffing means the verbal exploration of a particular subject, thus moving the meaning away from the original jazz sense of a repeated figure that a soloist improvises over, to instead indicate the improvisation itself—improvising on a melody or progression as one would improvise on a subject by extending a singular thought, idea or inspiration into a bit, or routine."

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Mewyabby @mewyabby.bsky.social · 10h

Please do not adopt policies held primarily by the human pet guy.

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Mewyabby @mewyabby.bsky.social · 10h

I’ve loved the plumage around the face ever since I saw @llllucid.bsky.social do it with Avialae.

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Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Romance Author @autumnwolff.bsky.social · 13h

For those of you who have read my Bride of the Elven Innkeeper, this is Lina and Lucina. My gay tavern girlies.

Art by @cloverpatchmouse.bsky.social

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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 12h

they’re not perfect but I love these broads. we’d be so much better off if the median middle aged white woman was like them.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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Mewyabby @mewyabby.bsky.social · 14h

Please do anything but give that ai using monopoly $.

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 14h

My vote in the 2028 D primary for POTUS will hinge almost entirely on the % of this Administration they promise to imprison

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 21h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 22h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15h

For those curious this is a negative 5900% gross margin

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16h

There's one person who pays them $250 a month who cost Augment $15,000. Amazing stuff. Can only imagine how bad things are for Cursor or Replit
www.augmentcode.com/blog/augment...

The user message model also isn’t sustainable for Augment Code as a business. For example, over the last 30 days, a user on our $250 Max plan has issued 335 requests per hour, every hour, for 30 days, and is approaching $15,000 per month in cost to Augment Code. This sort of use isn’t inherently bad, but as a business, we have to price our service in accordance with our costs.

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Win98 Tech Support @win98tech.bsky.social · 20h

Jesus goddamn fucking christ is there anything ai hasn't fucked up completely

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Esper Quinn 💠 @esper.bsky.social · 19h

watching adolescence of utena. i have decided that motorcycles are inherently sapphic

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Donut IRL @irldonut.bsky.social · 1d

listening and learning from the feedback

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Mewyabby @mewyabby.bsky.social · 16h

Just told my friends about it!

I love the ending made me realize how effective the book, irl, is at connecting with others, communicating feelings, and processing trauma.

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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 20h

A beautiful film!

Annalise Ophelian @dr-ophelian.bsky.social · 20h

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is available to stream free on Vimeo. If you want to spend some time with her and her loved ones, and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, updated streaming link is here: vimeo.com/whatdowewant...

MAJOR! (free streaming link)

The award-winning 2016 documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting…

vimeo.com

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Mewyabby @mewyabby.bsky.social · 16h

It's a very good book!

Sophia J. Turner 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophiajt.com · 8d

She's live! Machines of Consent is out now!

*Big* thanks to everyone who has pre-ordered. I hope you all thoroughly enjoy the adventures of Jess and Roh!

transistance.press @transistance.press · 8d

Thank you to all those who have pre-ordered - Machines of Consent by @sophiajt.com is OUT NOW!!

The book is currently live on Itch, and will begin shipping on other platforms over the next 24 hours.

If you haven't pre-ordered, grab your copy today: transistance.press/links/

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 22h

katherine dee is herself a reactionary who has written for TERF blog fairer disputations. her bio there cites her work at american conservative, unherd, and the washington examiner. interesting how the bio she chose here doesn’t reflect that bias. the work itself features no actual citations

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

www.gq.com

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Caio Almendra @caioalmendra.bsky.social · 22h

Fun fact: Cuba has free trans healthcare, including surgeries, for 17 years now.

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 1d

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
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Transsexualism as we conceive of it in America is bourgeois, the product of a society that venerates the freedom of an individual to choose. There is no designer vagina under communism, I'm sorry.

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 22h

Yeah it's just this but trans! Not good! blacksky.community/profile/did:...

The famous quote about women and communism from Disco Elysium:

RHETORIC Heroic: Failure - Alright, here we go. We're devoting all your available brain cells to coming up with a question about communism. Scratch that, to coming up with *the* question about communism, the alpha and omega of communism questions, and that question is:
1. - (Whisper.) "Are women bourgeois?"
2. - Oh god, that's bad. Surely I can think of something better.

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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 1d

it is disorienting when you lose someone who you navigate your life to, like a star blinking out of the night sky.
a life lived in fearlessness, she carved out space for so many of us.
an amazing woman.
check out this doc by some of my pals.

Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand

The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…

vimeo.com

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S-13 R.R.A. @digitalsymbiote.bsky.social · 4d

You can be just like us~

JOIN
US

A glitchy photo of S13RRA pulling zir shirt up and holding a vial of Estrodial Valerate between zir teeth. The words "JOIN US" are overlayed atop the image

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING: 45,000 health care workers just launched the biggest strike of the year.

Workers at Kaiser Permanente on the West Coast and in Hawaii have walked out to secure a contract.

These essential workers are fighting for patient care, good wages, and decent staffing.

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Mewyabby @mewyabby.bsky.social · 1d

💁‍♀️😼😸

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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