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AJ Fitzwater 🏳️‍⚧️ @ajfitzwater.bsky.social · 1d

You're asking fash to confront their hypocrisy, so that's a big old no.

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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 5d

We're running a sale on the website. Get 25% off your order with promo code Molly at checkout. One of the books we have in stock is The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper by @ajfitzwater.bsky.social. It's LGBT+ fantasy.
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The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper, by A.J. Fitzwater

Dapper. Lesbian. Capybara. Pirate. Cinrak the Dapper is a keeper of secrets, a righter of wrongs, the saltiest capybara on the sea and a rider of both falling stars and a great glass whale. Join her, ...

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AJ Fitzwater 🏳️‍⚧️ @ajfitzwater.bsky.social · 7d

Congrats!

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AJ Fitzwater 🏳️‍⚧️ @ajfitzwater.bsky.social · 8d

"[T]he fact that so many people in our world (friends, neighbors, family) seem unwilling or unable to process what we think should be reality-shattering information gets pretty demoralizing."

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 8d

20 years after Serenity, @thenerdypriest.bsky.social wrestles with a core premise of science fiction stories. When the world is at stake, is "getting out the truth" really enough?

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Serenity and the Myth of "Getting Out the Signal" - Reactor

We want to believe that knowledge will change the world for the better, but it's not always that simple.

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AJ Fitzwater 🏳️‍⚧️ @ajfitzwater.bsky.social · 10d

I want these stories too and plan to write them in my next novel.

Unfortunately, most media can't resist redeeming the old woman through a makeover, fuckability, or giving her a man.

I will do none of those things. Elder women and queers deserve an expansive existence.

Scary Roxy 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @roxynychus.bsky.social · 10d

Remember that trend of post-apocalyptic media about grizzled old men finding a young girl and rediscovering purpose in life by becoming her protector/adoptive father, ie Logan, The Last of Us? They should bring that back but with grizzled old women. Give us the badass apocalypse mom stories.

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ThirtyHelens🔞 @thirtyhelens.bsky.social · 10d

If you're an lgbtq news outlet, your job is not, contrary to what you might think, giving every queer person alive a heart attack every morning

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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 10d

an otherside kickstarter bumpersticker that reads: "honk if you love materially supporting 2slgbtquia+ art in the face of censorship and relentless hostility"

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 11d

WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

OTHERSIDE Kickstarter art. Text says OTHERSIDE Kickstarter LIVE NOW! over our purple and banner art with the Wanderer, a small figure on floating rocks, on the right.

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 12d

Make your queer stuff, do your queer stuff, but also save some queer stuff. It’s history.

What we’re doing now? Someday people like us are going to look back at all we vibrantly, unabashedly, vibrantly did for ourselves, despite everything thrown at us, and it’s going to give people hope.

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AJ Fitzwater 🏳️‍⚧️ @ajfitzwater.bsky.social · 13d

Can someone throw dildos at Peters and Seymour, or something, please.

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 13d

every trans person I've spoken to is feeling the Drag Down right now. not everybody has fallen into despair but we're all feeling it creeping in around the edges, doing our best to fight it. things are bad. if you know a trans person, look after them.

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 13d

We can never, ever, ever claim moral high ground as a State ever again. This is a stain that we will never be able to remove. I don't actually know if I believe in a soul, but if our country has one, it has been irreparably damaged.

NZ not yet recognising Palestinian state, Foreign Minister Winston Peters announces

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dashing darbs @dashingdarbs.bsky.social · 13d

I recognize Palestine, even if the current government won't.

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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 13d

We went from Ardern's govt changing gun laws in a week flat in response to an attack on our Muslim whānau to Luxon's govt refusing to acknowledge the Palestinian state during its genocide.

What a spineless mob.

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AJ Fitzwater 🏳️‍⚧️ @ajfitzwater.bsky.social · 13d

Absolutely. I was such a nerd for the movie when it came out I read EVERYTHING, and still have it bookmarked.

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AJ Fitzwater 🏳️‍⚧️ @ajfitzwater.bsky.social · 14d

2025: 2 presidents jailed for coups, 1 for fraud.

It can be done.

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AJ Fitzwater 🏳️‍⚧️ @ajfitzwater.bsky.social · 14d

3 hours on the Art of Rambling.

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AJ Fitzwater 🏳️‍⚧️ @ajfitzwater.bsky.social · 14d

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep.

1) Critical Role
2) LGBTQIA+ science fiction
3) Mad Max: Fury Road

Alastor Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 15d

list 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep

1. Single season ‘90s TV shows
2. Hamlet through the ages as an avatar for emotional repression and later the healing process of mental health.
3. The secret life of Jack Traven aka Johnny Utah aka John fucking Wick

wendell the expletive pronoun @wendellwrites.bsky.social · 15d

list 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep

1. the portrayal of women in renaissance poetry
2. the portrayal of women in big r romantic poetry
3. the trans spec fic renaissance we're currently in

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Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · 17d

As TPU and disingenuous candidates plead the case for rates capping, here's a decent reminder why they're a terrible idea.

thespinoff.co.nz/politics/22-... by @joelmacmanus.bsky.social

Windbag: The government’s misleading case for rates caps

Pretending colourful toilets are to blame for council rates rises is like saying millennials can't afford a house because of avocado toast.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 18d

2025 has been a very "The world is going to end TOMORROW" sort of year.

Taking a step back reminds you that the soul-crushing immediacy of it all is part of how their propaganda machine floods the zone. The goal is to keep you overwhelmed and paralyzed with a short attention span.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 18d

Making a difference in the world doesn't mean instant gratification.

"Plant trees under which you'll never sit"

If you're digging in your heels in your community; if you're engaged in a long term project that might take years to complete; if you're writing a book - we need your work too.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 22d

good morning

webcomicname

pink guy; i am awake
PG: my brain is refreshed after a Lovely sleep
the first thing I will do is check my horrible social media feed (feed consumes PG)
sun: oh no

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Blorg³ @blorgblorgbl.org · 23d

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Scuby @scubanursenz.bsky.social · 22d

Antifascists are only an antigovernment terrorist organisation if the FASCISTS ARE IN GOVERNMENT.
Say it again with me.
IF THE FACISTS ARE IN GOVERNMENT.

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 23d

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

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