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Toxicologist, TTRPG Gamer, Observer on Fetlife, sometimes photographer, sometimes writer. He/him, trans rights are human rights Current writing project: https://www.latexstories.net/storiesek/the_institute.html

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Reflective Desire @reflectivedesire.com · 3h

Enjoying @heyfaeriere.com occasionally making some of the most muppet like noises I've heard on set.

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Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social · 6h

So Jurassic Park is about a group of rich people who don't understand that biology is far more complicated than "there are only two genders" and how this ignorance toward gender fluidity in nature causes these rich people to lose their money and die.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 17h

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 14h

if you already didn’t have enough reasons to cancel spotify:

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 22h

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Observer @observer31.bsky.social · 14h

#latex #party in #ottawa, hosted by myself and @playfulrubberdoll.bsky.social , at @probeottawa.bsky.social fetlife.com/events/1900150 www.probeottawa.ca/event-detail...

Sinfully Slick | Probe Ottawa

A night to worship, wear, and revel in rubber

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David Barth @davidbarthy.bsky.social · 19h

Wrongs.
- Woodrow Wilson: World War l & World War ll
- FDR: World War ll
- Truman: Korean War
- Kennedy & LBJ: Vietnam War
- Obama: Attacked Libya for 8 months. Kept us in Afghanistan. Record for killing people overseas with drone strikes, including an American
- Biden: Bombed Syria 3 times

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 19h

Took him long enough, but thank god he finally did.

open.substack.com/pub/transiti...

Newsom Breaks Anti-Trans Streak, Signs a Slew of Trans Protections Into Law

The message? Pressure works.

open.substack.com

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⬡-Drone 4927 @latexdrone4927.bsky.social · 19h

4927 :: Code 100 :: Status :: Online and ready to serve.
4927 :: Code 052 :: Query :: What will you have this unit do?
#latexdrone #hexdrone #latex #gasmaskmonday

4927 on its knees stretching its arms behind its head.

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Oglaf @oglaf.bsky.social · 2d

www.oglaf.com/capitalvices/

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Hypno chill guy @hypnochillguy.bsky.social · Jun 19

part 4 and 5

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Hypno chill guy @hypnochillguy.bsky.social · Jun 16

dream job first 3 parts

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 1d

what did she call us | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: MATTIE and one other person are handcuffed on a platform over a big cylindrical vat full of glowing liquid. Behind them, TWO ARMED TROOPERS stand. One is shouting, next to a big lever.
TROOPER: You have all been charged with sexual deviance under the new statutes!
TROOPER: You are hereby sentenced…

PANEL 2: Closer in on MATTIE and the person next to her.
TROOPER (VO): …To being dropped into a big vat of acid, thus dissolving your perverted bodies!
MATTIE: I sure did prefer life before we were overrun by fascist stormtroopers.

PANEL 3: The TROOPERS look at each other.
TROOPER 2: Sorry…What did she-he call us?
TROOPER 1: NOT Cool…

PANEL 4: The other TROOPER from panel 3. He's crying, and pulls the lever. Some acid splashes into the frame.
TROOPER: STOP BULLYING ME!
SFX: CLUNK
SFX: SPLASH

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thumper @denyingthumper.com · 1d

All the straight/bi subby boys wish this were true.

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Maddie @androgynyboy.bsky.social · 1d

Well, I didn’t wait that long to wear it again 👀

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Diana Von Rigg @mistressdiana.co.uk · 1d

Almost every piece of modern fetish art you’ve ever seen owes a debt to one man. Most probably don’t even know his name, which is a quiet tragedy of its own…

His name was John Willie.

Read More: open.substack.com/pub/dianavon...

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LAist @laist.com · 1d

The days of discreetly engaging in nerdy hobbies for fear of ridicule are long gone, thanks to LGS — or local game stores.

🔗 https://ow.ly/XZex50XagML
✍️ Dan Sheehan
📷 Dan Sheehan/LAist

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Observer @observer31.bsky.social · 23h

For a brief moment, I thought the poster behind were wings... alien indeed

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Hypno chill guy @hypnochillguy.bsky.social · Jun 16

the new place

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JV @8204art.bsky.social · 11d

First attempt at drawing latex after catching HexLatex's last stream. It is incredibly so normal

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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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H Ξ X - HexCorp Dronification Hive Mxtress ⬡-0006 @hexlatex.bsky.social · 1d

Get Dronified Today! (certain benefits included) (free will is not included)

with @petrichorfane.bsky.social

A latex drone looming over the camera, body facing away from the viewer, looking over its shoulder and down at you, and reaching back to squeeze its butt

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Mbot @mdollbot.bsky.social · 1d

Luv 2 be an alien 😎

Thanx to @feturax.bsky.social for providing the face and to Polysh for supplying the shiny <3

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 1d

Pope Leo’s first-ever letter to all Catholics encourages all to care for the poor. It particularly singles out migrants and refugees as needing not just equitable but preferential treatment by society.

Catholic convert J.D. Vance would be so mad if he could read.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Pope Leo says faith and love for migrants are connected

In his first major document as leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo urges nations and believers to care for the poorest in society.

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Observer @observer31.bsky.social · 1d

Historically, it is not unusual for a successful democratic head of state to not last long after the peace returns.