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Aria Underground, Roleplayer Without Portfolio @ariaunderground.bsky.social · 6h

Oh, I just thought that term was funny in a very oblique reference to The Hollow Men by T.S. Elliot

"This is the way the world ends,
Not with a bang but a whimper."

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Aria Underground, Roleplayer Without Portfolio @ariaunderground.bsky.social · 6h

Oh shit, we out here whimpermaxxing?

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Youngles🇰🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 🔜 PAX Unplugged @youngles.bsky.social · 8h

A 15 year old AUTISTIC CHILD WAS KIDNAPPED and detained by ICE FOR FOUR DAYS.

HIS PARENTS THOUGHT HE WAS MISSING. THEY WERE NOT INFORMED.

The cops found him in a detention center.

THE COPS FOUND A MISSING 15 YEAR OLD AUTISTIC CHILD IN A DETENTION CENTER.

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone in the country should know this name

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Aria Underground, Roleplayer Without Portfolio @ariaunderground.bsky.social · 1d

"All Lives Matter," huh?

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You Call Yourself a Film Critic @filmcriticmaybe.bsky.social · 1d

Ryan Murphy is an absolute cunt

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 1d

apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience

plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic

juliaserano.medium.com

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Aria Underground, Roleplayer Without Portfolio @ariaunderground.bsky.social · 1d

Link

The Friendly Non-binary Dungeon Mom @fndungeonmom.bsky.social · 1d

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Sam Still Masks 🪉 @theailingwitch.bsky.social · 1d

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 15d

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 16d

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

heated.world

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 2d

Zack absolutely coming for them

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Aria Underground, Roleplayer Without Portfolio @ariaunderground.bsky.social · 2d

Is debate more appealing than fundamental human rights, then?

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Aria Underground, Roleplayer Without Portfolio @ariaunderground.bsky.social · 2d

"Far too idealistic for this planet," it says in bio. Guess it tracks, given you don't say what those ideals are...

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Aria Underground, Roleplayer Without Portfolio @ariaunderground.bsky.social · 2d

*Beep-beep-boop-beep-bip! Rrrr... rrrr...*

Hello, Bandai? I have a new Sentai show idea...

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 2d

wait are people doing the thing where bc there's a ceasefire in gaza they think nobody needs a fundraiser anymore, like israel flipped a big switch labelled "independent palestinian economy" and now everything is normal again even tho there still aren't any buildings

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Aria Underground, Roleplayer Without Portfolio @ariaunderground.bsky.social · 2d

Oh!

Man, I need to wake up some more.

Thanks for clarifying, though - I was prepared for the hit, but glad I don't gotta take it.

Aria Underground, Roleplayer Without Portfolio @ariaunderground.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, no, did I miss something about the Greens?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

A 17 year old trans girl completed suicide and most of Twitter celebrated. I never saw the usual suspect feign concern about that yet they're always so quick to blame trans people for discussing the risk of suicide as somehow causing it.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jul 7

And this isn't the first time. This happened back in March what Charlotte Fosgate who completed suicide by jumping from a bridge as well.

www.oregonlive.com/news/2025/06...

Online vitriol poured in after the death of a Portland-area trans teen. Then came a deluge of support, grief and love

LGBTQ+ teens and their allies made a tidal wave of posts, comments and videos in support of Fosgate’s legacy and against the vitriol.

www.oregonlive.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

Graham Linehan went on trial for harassing a 17 year old trans girl. The same age as this girl who died as a result of online harassment.

Gender criticals showed up to that trial and laughed and mocked the victim. These are soulless ghouls.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 4

Graham Linehan is set to go on trial today on a separate charge of harassing and cyberstalking a trans teenager who was 17 at the time he did so.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 4

Everyone is rushing to defend Graham Linehan as some martyr to free speech but don't actually state what he tweeted. He explicitly called for people to violently assault trans women in the bathroom.

In another instance, he cyberstalked a trans minor. He's legitimately a danger to trans people.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

The coroner explicitly stated long wait lists resulting in hopelessness and social media bullying encouraging her to kill herself led to her death.

Blood is on the hands of every gender critical person who stripped access to care and goes after trans folks online.

www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

Screenshot of a coroner’s report detailing the circumstances of a 17-year-old named Leia’s death. It describes her as intelligent, kind, and loved, and notes that she struggled with gender dysphoria and depression while waiting for treatment. Highlighted sections state that waiting lists for treatment were far too long and contributed to her being without care. The report also mentions community hostility and social media links inciting harm. The coroner’s concerns section emphasizes that long waiting times for first appointments at Gender Dysphoria clinics pose a risk of future deaths. The report instructs that action should be taken to prevent such deaths and requires a response within 56 days.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

Remember all of the ghouls who denied this was happening and did everything they could to make the problem worse from JK Rowling to Wes Streeting. The NHS who did a stitch up report to hide the growing number of suicides from trans youth on the waitlists. They should never be forgiven.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 3d

“The order also requires federal agents to wear badges or other “visible identification” so the public can know who they are, with exceptions for those officers who work undercover.
The order applies to all DHS agents — including ICE and Border Patrol — across the Northern District of Illinois.”

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3d

Chicagoans won a temporary restraining order today that prevents federal agents from using tear gas, pepper spray and other weapons against journalists and peaceful protesters.
We’re fighting back peacefully in Chicago because — unlike Trump — we believe in the rule of law.

Judge Rules Feds Can't Pepper-Spray, Tear-Gas Journalists After Block Club Chicago And Others Sue

Block Club and news organizations sued the federal government for its actions against journalists outside the Broadview ICE detention facility. Four of our journalists have been shot with pepper-spray...

blockclubchicago.org

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 3d

not to mention that you cannot have a healthy conversation unless both sides are engaging in good faith and racists, transphobes, and other assorted bigots are *never* operating in good faith.

racists do not have 'reasonable concerns'.

transphobes do not have 'reasonable concerns'.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 3d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Aria Underground, Roleplayer Without Portfolio @ariaunderground.bsky.social · 4d

Love me some Spring-Heeled Jack

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 5d

I feel like Mississippi Police covering up what was an obvious random lynching in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination should PROBABLY be getting more news coverage...

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7d

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Reportedly Finds Trey Reed Didn’t Die by Suicide — Family Attorney Ben Crump Hasn’t Confirmed

According to a source who isn't authorized to comment publicly, the autopsy of Trey Reed reveals that his death was not caused by a suicide.

www.blackenterprise.com

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