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Outbursts Of Everett True @everetttrue.bsky.social · 1h

THE BEST OF
THE OUTBURSTS
OF EVERETT TRUE 1907

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 56m

Even if it gets to the point where fascists and their supporters are operating on 100% lies made of AI slop, and they're calling anything they dislike or disagree with AI even when it isn't, at LEAST we could say we're TRYING to portray the truth, right?

RIGHT!?

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 59m

Fascists want nothing more than the truth to become unreliable and unrecognizable.

When truth and reality aren't a thing anyone can verify, it HELPS THEM. Yes, even if it's content that's trying to be anti-fascist. Like no shit?

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 1h

"Even if it's AI, it's still true"

Even if you're right, that's the exact same logic fascists use when made-up shit about the communities they target is proven to be false.

At that point all you can say is "Except I'm in the right!"

Except you're accelerating the post-truth era, so,

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 3h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 11h

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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 1d

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Chalo - Trying to Work @chalodillo.bsky.social · 3d

New Las Lindas page is up!
Geecku was not expecting that.
laslindas.kemono.cafe/comic/geecku...

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 20h

Bullying works, now call Newsom and tell him to sign expanded trans rights into law with AB 418 and other bills: lgbtqcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/legislative-...

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key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · 11h

ICE out of Portland!
#abolishICE #resist #PDX

A digital drawing of a frog standing on a bright red background. The frog is holding a sign that says “ICE out of Portland”. The frog looks mad.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 18h

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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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 11h

Remember: They can always tell.

Except for homophobic (transphobic, but homophobic using their own framing here) men who want sexual partners that piss them off to be raped in jail. Those men can't tell and must be coddled.

She was jailed for being trans. The sentence is rape.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 1d

She's been jailed - to be raped every night.

She's in a male jail. Despite living as female since she was 13.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Trans woman jailed after hiding male genitalia during sex with man

Ciara Watkin, 21, concealed she had male genitalia and performed sex acts on a man she had been on a date with - before later texting him 'I'm trans, I'm sorry I didn't tell you'

www.mirror.co.uk

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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 7h

Iran Lures Transgender Foreigners for Surgery but Forces Operations on Locals

www.nytimes.com/2025...

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Iran Lures Transgender Foreigners for Surgery but Forces Operations on Locals

Iran became a pioneer in gender transition operations by forcing procedures on L.G.B.T.Q. Iranians. Desperate for cash, the Islamic republic is hoping to attract trans patients from around the world.

www.nytimes.com

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · Mar 26

Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.

Close up of Pinkie Pie looking at a newspaper comic saying “Hmpf. I thought these were supposed to be funny?”

The comic is called Ponybert by Trot Adams. It opens with a building and we see a word balloon that says “Well?” The second panel is of Ponybert, the Dilbert stand-in saying “No one is smart but me.”

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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 6h

26 Senate Democrats Help Pass Military NDAA Containing Trans Sports, Surgery Ban, No Protection For US Troop Deployments

www.erininthemorning...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

26 Senate Democrats Help Pass Military NDAA Containing Trans Sports, Surgery Ban, No Protection For US Troop Deployments

The bill passed by a wide margin in the Senate and will be the starting point for negotiations with the House, which contain more severe anti-trans riders.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Nyil @nyil.bsky.social · 18h

The annoying thing about corporations trying to break into furry spaces is that like.. when corporations do this it's because they want to take control of the space so that they're the only ones who can sell things. They're corporations, they can afford to undercut small creators.

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Mads Transmegistus 🥭🎶🦊 @krankenschreibe.bsky.social · 5h

Fuck the entirety of both of their houses. The Democrats are as eager for trans blood as the Republicans are, they're just waiting at the table to be served it rather than running at trans folk with knives themselves.

Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 6h

26 Senate Democrats Help Pass Military NDAA Containing Trans Sports, Surgery Ban, No Protection For US Troop Deployments

www.erininthemorning...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

26 Senate Democrats Help Pass Military NDAA Containing Trans Sports, Surgery Ban, No Protection For US Troop Deployments

The bill passed by a wide margin in the Senate and will be the starting point for negotiations with the House, which contain more severe anti-trans riders.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 4h

‘Discriminatory And Unlawful Executive Orders’: State AGs Take Aim at Trump Edicts

washingtoncurrent.su...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

‘Discriminatory And Unlawful Executive Orders’: State AGs Take Aim at Trump Edicts

Democratic attorneys general stand up for transgender rights, and “DEI” policies

washingtoncurrent.substack.com

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 4h

*Me, bursting through the time portal that takes you back five years and has sat unused since 2020*

Me: “I’M BACK!”

Past Me: “Oh my god man, I am so sorry I doubted you about how bad this pandemic shit is! Things in 2025 have to be better!”

Me: “Yeah, about that.”

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

www.wilx.com

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Iridium Wolf @iridiumwolf.bsky.social · 4h

Michigan friends, Michigan citizens, please fight this. For yourselves, and so it doesn't become a model for the rest of the states.

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

www.wilx.com

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Jazzy Oliver - Voice Actress @ladyjazzington.bsky.social · 13h

BUT HEY!

THAT'S JUST A Segway to remind you that the FNAF creator/this movie's screenwriter, Scott Cawthon, donates the money he makes from FNAF stuff to far right politicians, many of whom are currently trying to make things worse for everyone, specifically trans people. Don't support this film.

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 14h

MatPat has been cast as Toy Bonnie in ‘FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDYS 2’

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 11h

people are going to post AI slop...sometimes they just do not realize it at the time and have the good graces to delete it

but if they are told and keep posting it your safest action is just to block them because they will continue to spread it

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 5h

As I understand it, the ‘brains develop until they’re 25’ factoid simply means brains continue developing indefinitely, and 25 was the end point of the studies only because it was an age that everyone understood was well into adulthood. We need fewer credulous idiots giving credence to bigots.

Claire's Trans Talks @clairestranstalks.bsky.social · 9h

Part 2 of the Gender Clinic Files is out, looking at the impact if Cass recommendations for adult services were introduced, affecting more than 32k young trans adults just from the current waiting list.

Huge thanks to @wearequeeraf.com & @whatthetrans.com for their work on this series.

Majority of adults waiting for Trans+ healthcare are under 25

Two-thirds of Trans+ people would lose care if all Cass Review recommendations implemented

www.wearequeeraf.com

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james @james.claims · 5h

One (1) good thing about AI is that it’s clearly delineating journalists and people who pretend to be journalists.

Lot of “journalists” sharing things that are clearly AI cos they don’t take a minute to look to verify what they’re seeing/hearing - they’re in it for numbers, not truth.

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Joey-Poey @joey-poey.bsky.social · 19h

I know it goes without saying to most folks following me, but don't buy Spencer's furry shit. Either stolen or AI, it doesn't return money back into the fandom. Buy art and merch from actual furries.

Always support your own community however you can. You don't want corporations getting in the mix.

🌈✨ Mex says DOOK!!! 🌈✨ @ibolt07.bsky.social · 4d

hol up SPENCER'S SELLS FURRY SHIT?!??!?

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