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Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 20m

Hhhmmm it’s looking rather like being pro trans isn’t a losing strategy after all, in fact the way you treat a vulnerable minority is a bellwether for how you’ll likely treat other minorities.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2h

A new week - and a new huge milestone!

@greenparty.org.uk now have 100,000 members!!!

We are absolutely on track to next overtake the Tories - let's make hope normal again!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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indeedagem.blacksky.app @indeedagem.blacksky.app · 7h

RIP to a legend!

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8h

Stephanie "Tanqueray" Johnson, who went viral on the "Humans of New York" account by sharing stories about her life as a burlesque dancer in the 1970s, has died

A photo of Stephanie "Tanqueray" Johnson, sitting down, holding a photo of herself

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Taliesin82 @taliesin82.bsky.social · 7h

They should be!

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Taliesin82 @taliesin82.bsky.social · 7h

Oh crap I meant stepmom!

Sorry!

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Glorified Extra @glorifiedextra.bsky.social · 8h

Hi folks, while I'm dealing with the IRS trying to keep our refund and charge us for thousands of dollars we don't owe, we're also out of food. If you can help me afford some groceries for myself and my dad, I'd deeply appreciate it.

Glorified Extra @glorifiedextra.bsky.social · 2d

I've changed my profile and pinned this post. Please help if you can. I don't know what else to do.

CashApp: cash.app/$starscape2025
Venmo: account.venmo.com/u/kevlarunicorn
Paypal: www.paypal.com/paypalme/lotusteadragon

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 23h

For Halloween, I'm dressing up as trying to have a conversation with your dentist when your mouth is full of pointy tools and they keep asking you question after question.

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The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 13h

Making these available again for anyone looking for a sign for a possible freedom-loving get-together.

Reformatted to larger sizes: 18 x 24. They scaled fine in the software, havent printed them yet, but they should work. 🖖🏻

#TrekkiesAgainstFascism

star trek fan art illustration of Spock. The text says "Star Trek Is Punk."

star trek fan art illustration of Captain Kirk. The text says "Empathy is Strength."

Star Trek illustration of Sulu. The Text says "Kindness is Resistance."

Star Trek illustration of Uhura. The Text says "Compassion is Rebellion."

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Civil & Human Rights Activist “Bad” Brad Berkwitt @badbrad2024.bsky.social · 1d

All. Of. This.

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 14h

It's Sunday, so let's preach a bit

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 12h

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

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R.L. Stollar @rlstollar.bsky.social · 11h

"When we ask them why their families couldn’t accept them, a staggering amount, about 90 percent, tell us they were rejected due to their parents’ religious beliefs."

LGBTQ teens are expelled from their homes by religious parents. We must do better. - Outreach

It is my hope and prayer that we will awaken to the terrible harm being done to homeless LGBTQ youths in God’s name, recognize it as shameful and repent of what causes that harm.

outreach.faith

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 11h

This reminds me of how David Lynch said he wanted to keep working but couldn’t because COVID posed too great a risk & people stopped being willing to mask up to protect others.

Ableism is an insidious evil in society & healthcare. It convinces us to abandon each other for profit & convenience.

Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 12h

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Screenshot of text from the interview:

You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?

I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.

[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]

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Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 12h

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 10h

From him I learned that who we are is a process, a journey, and not a snapshot. The direction we're traveling says so much more about us than where on the road we are.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 10h

One of my personal heroes is Bryan Stevenson, an absolutely amazing lawyer and person whom I've always wanted to be like.

Stevenson wrote in his brilliant book Just Mercy that "Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done."

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Taliesin82 @taliesin82.bsky.social · 9h

Haha pretty close. It’s a mod called Ribbits that brings in little singing and instrument playing frog people. They’re honestly adorable.

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Taliesin82 @taliesin82.bsky.social · 9h

100% outrage bait that we don’t have to give them.

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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

Gaza lives.

Maha Hussaini @MahaGaza
We have returned, like we'll always do.
[photo of a cat sitting in a bombed out window frame silhouetted against a backdrop of rubble]
Gaza City

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Taliesin82 @taliesin82.bsky.social · 1d

Always will. But just pragmatically you’re a very good editor and if it could be monetized we should definitely do it

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Taliesin82 @taliesin82.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a tv series based off the movie Merry Little Batman which is basically a Batman Christmas movie cartoon and honestly I quite liked it.

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Glorified Extra @glorifiedextra.bsky.social · 1d

Essentially, the IRS is claiming we owe them thousands of dollars (which we don't, and even if we did we don't have), our transmission blew up and the replacement is $4500 for everything, and we have little to no money for food.

If I can get help with the food, I would be so grateful.

Glorified Extra @glorifiedextra.bsky.social · 2d

I've changed my profile and pinned this post. Please help if you can. I don't know what else to do.

CashApp: cash.app/$starscape2025
Venmo: account.venmo.com/u/kevlarunicorn
Paypal: www.paypal.com/paypalme/lotusteadragon

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 1d

an AI will generate some garbage spaceship, a bad movie will have people spray paint a bunch of household objects silver and stick them to a dumpster and call it a spaceship that kinda works from some angles with some clever camera work, which is just objectively better in every way

Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 1d

One thing AI is good for is reminding people how even the very worst movie they’ve ever seen is better than AI “movies”

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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 1d

Crazy how with these people it's always AI that's "here to stay like it or not" and never like gender affirming medical procedures or something

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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