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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 11h

except this time they're also talking about Eduard Bazardo

tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 11h

everyone is wellness-checking in on me from across the country in a way that I can only relate to "the time I had major surgery"

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 12h

After the 15th inning it is time to replace one player with a dog until someone wins or it's all dogs.

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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 12h

help

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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 12h

yeah but we'll get a little banner for making it there and we'll never make it out of the ALCS anyway :) so :)

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 13h

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 1d

watching this video every time I think about walking into the ocean and it's working better than Zoloft

James G @orth.ca · 2d

Vladdy: "DAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE!"

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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 1d

I'm on the Blue Jays because of that and because daaaaaa yankees lose :)

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Kate Sloan (she/her) @katesloan.com · 1d

I am midway through this book and godDAMN it is so fucking funny

big recommend for any queers who have even a passing familiarity with Sex & the City

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Kate Sloan (she/her) @katesloan.com · 2d

"[This book] achieves the rare art of the best humor: a joke that tells you something dead serious about life." -Torrey Peters bookshop.org/a/24457/9798...

Sex Change and the City

Check out Sex Change and the City - The team behind the Lambda Literary Award-winning 2 Trans 2 Furious returns with another delightful, deranged volume of queer media studies. Sex ...

bookshop.org

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 3d

you can also pre-order Sex Change and the City, the new anthology @tuck.bsky.social and I put together.

Support your local Sex Change.

bookshop.org/p/books/sex-...

Sex Change and the City

Check out Sex Change and the City - The team behind the Lambda Literary Award-winning 2 Trans 2 Furious returns with another delightful, deranged volume of queer media studies. Sex ...

bookshop.org

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 3d

Celebrate prime day by buying my book from Bookshop dot org (with free shipping and a little discount) or your fave indie bookstore.

Fuck Jeff Bezos, books don't need him.

Bookshop dot org: is.gd/iMcYEA

a book, with a blue cover and gradient red to yellow font that reads the dad rock that made me a woman by Niko Stratis. it's sitting on a wooden tabletop, behind it are records and a lamp and whatnot.

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 3d

Selena Gomez stuns in new selfie.

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 3d

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 3d

oh thank god

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All Hallows' Leask (Hallowle'ask) @leask.bsky.social · 3d

listening to this playlist right now and it's great because I love most of these songs already and now I can listen to them and think about Niko and her brilliant book as well!

Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 12d

There is a playlist of every song mentioned in the book, you can listen to it via 🍎 🎶

music.apple.com/ca/playlist/...

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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 3d

as someone who spent 2020 in Portland going "not everything is COINTELPRO" and then the COINTELPRO receipts were released.... oops and agreed.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

COINTELPRO NEVER ENDED

Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 3d

Citing the “martyrdom” of Charlie Kirk, Texas AG Ken Paxton says his office is pursuing sweeping undercover investigations into “leftist” groups. “To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."

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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 4d

if nothing else plz pray that we do not get high volumes of AI spam submissions again this year

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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 4d

The 11th(!) Gender Reveal grant cycle is now open for applications. We're particularly interested in TPOC-led collectives engaged in ongoing community work.

Apply 💫 genderpodcast.com/grant 💫

If you'd like to help fund one of our no-strings-attached grants, visit genderpodcast.com/donate, tysm!

graphic that says: are you a trans person of color doing rad organizing, art, or community work? we want to give you $1000! applications for the gender reveal podcast's 2025 grant program are open now thru October 31. apply and learn more at genderpodcast.com/grant.

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 5d

People hate what is happening, which means there are people around you who want to help stop it. You are not alone in wanting to take action. Step up and help; it works.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 5d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 6d

Federal officers gassed a crowd of hundreds of protesters today outside the ICE facility in Portland.

Federal agents fire tear gas, make multiple arrests during protest outside Portland ICE facility

Hundreds of protesters marched to facility from nearby Elizabeth Carruthers Park in Southwest Portland.

www.opb.org

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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 6d

send pics also you're a genius

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6d

It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 6d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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𝙒𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙠 @winterk.bsky.social · 8d

this is what life should be about. the other horse shit shouldn't be happening.

Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 9d

let the gourd times roll

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 9d

Chicago, Illinois, 2025:

"They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van."

"They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other."

"I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'"

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

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