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Adriaan 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦

@adriaan.braevitae.com

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SciFi and Fantasy Author 🇨🇦 at https://braevitae.com. Software Developer. Parent to a very busy 8yo 🤷‍♀️💗 Trans 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 They/Them, She/Her.

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Adriaan 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @adriaan.braevitae.com · Dec 5

I write Fantasy and Science Fiction. Always with LGBTQIA+ characters. Often readable. Sometimes insightful.

See the full list of my books and short stories at adriaanbrae.braevitae.com.

Adriaan Brae Author

Fantasy and Science Fiction with a touch of horror.

adriaanbrae.braevitae.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1h

Do you see where this is headed?

Tweet from Jordan Weissmann: “Asked for an example of a group that had funded a violent protest, Trump named ActBlue and Indivisible, which I think pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the goals here.”
Below is a screenshot of an article excerpt detailing that neither George Soros nor Open Society Foundations fund protests, and noting that the White House named liberal groups like ActBlue and Indivisible in relation to violent incidents.

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Adriaan 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @adriaan.braevitae.com · 1h

Those fucking fascists are going to make me support the Pope now. God dammit! 🙄😠

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 8h

The Salvation Army really is the epitome of a certain kind of white conservatism

They prey on the most vulnerable. They happily leave the sort of people they don't like to die in the streets

But they smile a lot and don't cuss and say "Jesus", so they get to be respectable

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Adriaan 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @adriaan.braevitae.com · 8h

I started out planning for my first novel, took a _long_ time creating the 'perfect' plan, then realized half of it didn't work when when written 😥

I switched to a 'pants a 0-draft then plan' style that's been working better 🙂

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Adriaan 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @adriaan.braevitae.com · 9h

This is very not-good for Canadian authors trying to sell into one of the largest markets available to us 😥

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Boo!-story (disturbingly absent) @withouthistoryband.bsky.social · 11h

(stolen from a friend)
Gender affirming train ticket

Screenshot from a train app with the date and the journey Nottingham to Manchester Piccadilly. The abbreviation reads NOT -> MAN

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 10h

People claiming that FiLiA is “just” a feminist organisation - It might include feminists, but it’s also run by people like this…

This is Kruti Walsh, who left her job at the Civil Service - where she founded the anti-trans ‘SEEN’ lobbying network - to join FiLiA as their Head of Public Affairs.

LinkedIn Post by Kruti Walsh (edited to fit alt text)

Kruti Walsh • 3rd+
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A belated update - in November, after 13 years in the Civil Service, I left for an incredible opportunity that I just couldn't pass up.

My time in the Civil Service has given me life-long friends, incredible training and skills and opportunities to work with brilliantly clever and dedicated people, at the heart of Government policy and decision-making.…..

- I worked in a small team, reporting to the PM, to make recommendations on the government's childcare strategy and policy, where I led on research and ensured our recommendations were based on evidence (2017)
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- I developed the team, strategy and workplan for the Policy Profession's first Equality, Diversity and Inclusion workstream, supporting policy professionals to embed equality considerations into their policy making (2021-2022)

- I was one of the co-founders and a Steering Group member for the cross-government Sex Equality and Equity Network (SEEN), and was instrumental in establishing us as a recognised staff network and coming up with the final name that is now internationally known, and which has inspired SEENs in other professional sectors! (2022-2024)

This last one has been a personal, as well as career, highlight as I was able to contribute to upholding and supporting sex-based rights and protections in my workplace. I have met intelligent, brave and supportive colleagues and friends in SEEN, who are exemplars of the Civil Service values and show what true diversity of thought really means.

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Alastor Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 4d

Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.

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Palesfenian 🇮🇪❤️🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇺 @iamthelawl.bsky.social · 20h

A curfew? Where are all the people that protested because they were asked to stay home over covid?

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 20h

don't forget! fuck the salvation army

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 22h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 19h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 1d

As a fashion historian, I will die on this hill: the point of having blue hair and nose rings (or spiky nails or stripper heels or tattoos or an all-black wardrobe) is not to look pretty or cool. It's to look (and feel) powerful--something many young American women crave right now. And it's working.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 16h

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges

DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t

The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press

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Trisha 🤡❤️‍🔥 Skulls 💀☠️ @trishasnakes.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah the wrong-answers machine could definitely replace nate silver and nobody would notice

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 1d

And it's bare, surface-level criticism. Nobody doing this has to actually engage with what they're criticizing, it's never about how well those themes or characters are done, just that they exist. It's intellectually lazy, but it's just aesthetics they can point to without engaging any deeper.

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Lily Munster ain't got nothing on me @tigerlily.northsky.social · 21h

Same as it ever was

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 21h

US government is running a protection racket bsky.app/profile/nyti...

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23h

Venezuelan officials, hoping to end their country’s clash with the U.S., offered the Trump administration a dominant stake in Venezuela’s oil and other mineral wealth in discussions that lasted for months, according to people close to the talks.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Adriaan 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @adriaan.braevitae.com · 1d

You made me cry (In a good way). That kinesthetic memory of a warm little body snuggled close never leaves you 😭

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Adriaan 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @adriaan.braevitae.com · 1d

THIS! Kids changing your whole life is pretty much the point!

I absolutely never understood any of the 'romantic' crap 'I would die for you', 'I would give my whole life for you' until I had a kid, then it was like Oh! I get what that feeling is like now 😅

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Adriaan 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @adriaan.braevitae.com · 1d

The dirty secret as to what drives most of us authors. Not necessarily to write, but to publish and market our work 😁

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 2d

Owning the libs by faithfully preserving one of the earliest trans manuscripts in posterity for future generations 😎

Dear god do I hate this man.

I read through his AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ANDROGYNE. I cannot say that I enjoyed it.
I neither liked the style in which it was written, nor the manner in which, to me, unimportant details were given a
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great deal of space, nor the manner in which vital ques- tions were entirely overlooked.
I did not see any scientific value in the conversations related nor any poetical value in the verses recited.
The subject matter was all well known to me and nauseating.
I was to edit this "Autobiography" and stood aghast at the task that I thought was before me.
I saw the author and told him what I have just stated and that in my opinion the book had neither literary nor scientific value in the way in which he thought it had.
I found that the author was severely hurt. This Auto- biography was his joy - a work which this epoch had been waiting for and which futurity will crown as a classic.
He fought with all his might against any of his verses being omitted. Every single word that I wanted to change or expunge was of vital importance to him.
And then I saw a light.
The AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ANDROGYNE would serve its mission best unedited, and so it practically remains.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says he has been denied 4 times to see what is going on inside the Broadview, IL ICE facility:

"Something's going on in there that they don't want us to see. I don't know what it is, but all Americans should be asking the same question."

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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 2d

As AI makes it significantly cheaper and easier to produce and disseminate content, the use of AI for political propaganda is emerging as a major concern in contemporary democratic societies.

AI and visual propaganda are being used to stoke tensions as Ethiopia eyes Eritrea's Red Sea Port

As AI makes it significantly cheaper and easier to produce and disseminate content, the use of AI for political propaganda is emerging as a major concern in contemporary democratic societies.

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