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Queer (she/they) white bi. 30s. Musician (primarily violin). Occasionally writer. Multifandom, personal, & political account. I am anti-genAI.

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ots | 🍉 @otsanda.bsky.social · Aug 26

I’m listening to this series now and it’s SO good, but also it’s kind of wild to listen to now in 2025. So much has changed.

debci.bsky.social @debci.bsky.social · Feb 27

Highly recommend this 14-part podcast series, released between Feb and Aug 2017. Hosted by Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen with an array of leading scholars and regular guest @chenjerai.bsky.social (Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika).
sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/

Seeing White

Just what is going on with white people? Police shootings of unarmed African Americans. Acts of domestic terrorism by white supremacists. The renewed embrace of raw, undisguised white-identity pol

sceneonradio.org

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

I frequently say you don't need to protest. You don't! There are a thousand other ways to push back on fascism if protesting doesn't feel comfortable or safe for you!

But if you CAN go, this 10/18 #NoKings thing is really a key protest to participate in. Be part of it, friends.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

NO KINGS, y'all! October 18! Find a rally near you and GO!

nokings.org

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ots | 🍉 @otsanda.bsky.social · 1d

Friends, please consider donating a little to help if you can!

If you donate any amount, I would be happy to make you a custom playlist or to share one of my existing playlists (I have a lot from many genres, fandoms, and of various themes).
❤️❤️❤️

✨️StellarCyn✨️ - OFMD, GOMENS, DR. WHO! 🍉🏴‍☠️🧡 @stellarcyn.bsky.social · 1d

Hey yall, I need to raise $2200 dollars to afford dental care that I need next month and I do not have any way to save that much or set it aside on my own and I really need this work done before my tooth gets worse. Sharing my kofi here in case anyone is willing and able to help even a little!

Buy Cyn a Coffee

Become a supporter of Cyn today!

ko-fi.com

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ots | 🍉 @otsanda.bsky.social · 1d

Listennnn

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 5d

This is a great time to remind everyone that you should in fact, still be calling MasterCard, Visa, Stripe, and other payment processors to annoy the shit out of them.

Because I'll tell you right now, that shitheel? Not gonna have to worry about them accepting payment.

*Artists will.*

Phone Numbers
• Stripe (California): +1 888 926 2289 (Say you're based in California before continuing.)
• Stripe (Headquarters): +1 (888) 963-8955
• Stripe (US): +1 (877) 887-7815
• Stripe (France): +33 805-11-19-67
Mastercard (Headquarters): +1 914-249-2000 • Mastercard (US): +1 (800)-627-8372
Mastercard (US): +1 (800)-307-7309
• Mastercard (Int.): +1 (636)-722-7111
• Mastercard (AUS): +61 1800 120 113
• Mastercard (UK): 0-800-96-4767
All region numbers for Mastercard Visa (Headquarters): +1 (650)-432-3200
• Visa (US+ Can): +1 (800)-847-2911
• Visa (AUS): +61 1800 125 440 All region numbers for Visa
• PayPal (US): +1 (888)-221-1161
• PayPal (UK): +44 (0203)-901-7000
PayPal Customer Service: +1 (877)-569-1116

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ots | 🍉 @otsanda.bsky.social · 1d

Knights who wear chainmail for the same reason dogs wear thunder jackets

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 3d

“CDC will have lost its ability to detect outbreaks and respond to them. It will no longer be able to track diseases, in America and around the globe. That includes infectious threats like flu, foodborne illnesses, and Ebola, as well as chronic diseases and injuries.”
time.com/7325192/cdc-...

CDC ‘Not Functional’ After Trump Administration Orders Mass Firings

The layoffs targeted leaders in departments related to respiratory diseases, chronic diseases and global health.

time.com

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 3d

Republicans feel empowered by their leader's autocratic coup against the Constitution to pursue their most cartoonishly evil agenda items, like literally making it easier to kill seals and whales

abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who now feel they have the political will to do so

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lefty jellyfish @leftyjellyfish.bsky.social · 8d

link

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Anchovy crisis 🔞 @maggotnursery.bsky.social · 10d

every time gd

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10d

my cousin had the family over tonight for a party whose theme was “everyone make a cake and then we will sit around in the backyard and try all the cakes” and honestly like, we should do this once a month

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 10d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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ots | 🍉 @otsanda.bsky.social · 10d

This was so fun!!! I’m really glad I got to participate ❤️

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˗ˏˋ evie! ´ˎ˗ @eefaevie.bsky.social · 10d

server big art! thanks so much to @lilpy.bsky.social for contributing the lineart, A for organizing, and @mumblers-lobby.bsky.social for assembling 💕 #goodomens

an illustration of Aziraphale and Crowley from Good Omens. The lineart is by the artist @lilpy.bsky.social (used with permission), which has been divided into squares and coloured by different members of the Nice and Accurate Atelier discord server, before being reassembled into one piece. Crowley leans over Aziraphale, his curls tumbling over his shoulder, while Aziraphale looks up at him, reaching up to play with his hair.

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gingerhaole @gingerhaole.bsky.social · 22d

Bicycle belles 🚲

Inspired by the 1930 film The Florodora Girl, I just really wanted to draw the wives in big poofy sleeves in some enchanted glen ✨️

#goodomens #goodomensfanart #crowley #aziraphale #ineffablewives

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Jess Fink🍉🌈🎃 @jessfink.bsky.social · 11d

I just finished reading this book last night and it's absolutely DIVINE. Spooky, mysterious, SO romantic, gorgeous to look at!!!! A perfect ghost story for the season. I don't know how Theo does it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

theo stultz @theoplum.bsky.social · 12d

consider this:

Ladies of the Living Princess by Theo Stultz — ShortBox Comics Fair

The ladies of the living princess serve their mistress in the cloistered halls of the mysterious innermost castle. Ursa, ostracized by the others, carefully tends to the most respected young lady amon...

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com

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ots | 🍉 @otsanda.bsky.social · 13d

*I think

ots | 🍉 @otsanda.bsky.social · 13d

Yeah in think it comes from some kind of behind the scenes content!

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Allie Briggs @alliebriggsart.bsky.social · 15d

Mood. #art

"Being a good artist isn't about having artistic talent. It's about practice and having the willpower of a roach that has been smacked 20 times with a rolled up magazine and yet STILL refuses to die."

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ots | 🍉 @otsanda.bsky.social · 14d

That’s the superior way to experience it!

ots | 🍉 @otsanda.bsky.social · 14d

(Muffled by dirt) thank you

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✨ericavee✨ @ericavee.bsky.social · 14d

hey sluts let’s take care of the elders we’re lucky enough to have!!! 💖💖

Melinda Magpie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 Free Link, free Palestine @melindamagpie.bsky.social · 14d

Miss Major, one of the mothers of the trans liberation movement, has been in the hospital for 10 days with sepsis and a blood clot. She has looked out for us for generations, now it’s time to look out for her. Donate if you can: fundly.com/missmajor

An older Black femme, laying in a hospital bed. She's smiling and holding a pink, lavender and yellow dragon stuffie.

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ots | 🍉 @otsanda.bsky.social · 14d

Help I’m trapped in camelot and I can’t escape (I am actively burrowing deeper)

ots | 🍉 @otsanda.bsky.social · 14d

Please hit me up if you wanna talk about it or if you have any fic recs. Also I’m super normal about it over on tumblr (no need to go check)