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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 5h

I'm sorry but I can't stop laughing, these dudes can't even function properly if a game doesn't give them an instant boner

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 2d

Gamers’ brains are so cooked dude. The woman on the right is gorgeous and beautiful. Straight gamer men literally can’t find normal women attractive anymore.

Designed With
Gamers In Mind Designed With
Activists In Mind

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 5h

This. This exactly.

A lack of interest in prioritizing goonerbait characters is (correctly) interpreted as an acknowledgement of the widening of the audience for video games, and "gamers" don't want anyone else's wants or desires to matter. Only their own.

Lucky_Bun @luckybun.bsky.social · 14h

This isn't about porn or gooner brain or whatever, it's not even about looks, this is about power. They don't want to see beautiful women, they want all women in media to be nothing but objects for the pleasure of (white) men.

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 2d

Gamers’ brains are so cooked dude. The woman on the right is gorgeous and beautiful. Straight gamer men literally can’t find normal women attractive anymore.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 19h

Because it needs to be said:

The Salvation Army does not exist to save you

The Salvation Army exists to convert you

And if they cannot convert you, they will not lift a finger to save you

Do not support those whose “charity“ comes with conditions

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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michiums @ deadlines @michiums.bsky.social · 1d

this old piece went viral on tumblr back in 2023 so here it is again since I don’t think I posted it here before !

A dreamy purple, pink, green and blue sky with a bunch of little ghosts and text in white that reads “your trans dreams,love,rage,existence are enough”

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LetUsAllExist (🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🎈🥬) @letusallexist.bsky.social · 2d

Here's my updated script (refined through calling a few times,) to tidy things up for time, and specifically apply to both of them.

Call daily if possible!

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Abolish ICE.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 2d

#SaveSpeech

KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total

You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP

The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Please call DAILY

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Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social · 2d

People who think the idea of "give me ideas" is something genuinely creative people want have literally never experienced the absolute EUPHORIA of a brainstorming breakthrough, either solo or with a human collaborator. They don't understand what is happening when artists create, on a basic level.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Dezblade 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔜MFF25 @dezblade.bsky.social · 2d

If you haven’t checked out Robin’s modern day ish fantasy webcomic it’s got lots LGBTQ+ themes (some pages have some warnings) but it’s very well thought out and funny as hell.

PLEASE READ PLEASE

Robin Brooks @assumptionprime.bsky.social · 2d

Spell X Sword Update! Page 54: spellxsword.com/comic/chapte...

helpfully expositing

Dani and Mira sitting across a table from each other, both wide eyed and embarrassed.

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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 3d

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 3d

“Maybe we don’t need to crush orphans” you FOOL. You absolute LUDDITE. Don’t you know the Orphan Crusher is here to stay?

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Robin Brooks @assumptionprime.bsky.social · 2d

Spell X Sword Update! Page 54: spellxsword.com/comic/chapte...

helpfully expositing

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SexyAlexWattsEsq @alexwattsesq.bsky.social · 3d

Why are all the bad things "here to stay" and all the things I love up for constant debate until they're eroded out of life altogether?

"Frightening" Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 3d

Blum too. At least find a new way to say "it's here to stay" jfc

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 3d

Just bumping this up. Galaxy 2 is going to be so gorgeous and you OWE it to yourself to reserve your copy now. Talk to your local comic store, your local bookstore, or put in an order with someplace like @bookshop.org <3

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 3d

Heyyyy! Wanna do something awesome for trans creators today?

Galaxy 2: As the World Falls Down is available for preorder. It's the sequel to Galaxy the Prettiest Star by @planetx.bsky.social and @ryehickman.bsky.social and it's gonna be BEAUTIFUL.

LINK:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/799756...

Galaxy 2: As The World Falls Down by Jadzia Axelrod: 9781799503446 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The highly anticipated sequel to the YA trans coming-out graphic novel Galaxy: The Prettiest Star brings more romance, more action, and more queer joy as Taylor faces her biggest fear: the Vane. Tayl...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Robin Brooks @assumptionprime.bsky.social · 3d

this is Sailor Jupiter all over again

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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 3d

once again i cannot emphasize enough that transphobia is almost entirely an elite panic. the overwhelming majority of people simply do not care—it is media and political elites who are obsessed with us and keep bending over backwards to justify and spread transphobia.

Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 3d

the idea that trans rights have swung elections to republicans is a fiction made up by media and political elites (both conservative and liberal) who are personally transphobic and want transphobia to be politically popular so they no longer have to hide how disgusting they think trans people are

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 3d

My dope friend Adrian, who is trans, interviewed 90 transgender Texans. His project is finally out: www.dallasnews.com/news/politic...

We surveyed 90 trans Texans. Most said they’re living in fear and weighing a move

Respondents said anti-trans policies have complicated their sense of home in Texas and pushed them to consider leaving the state.

www.dallasnews.com

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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · Jul 4

a true story from 2011

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 6d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 4d

Cis friends and allies: Do you see how "biological" is simply a slur when used by transphobes to demean trans people?

"Birth name" is a term we already have (not that that would be any more defensible, just less insane-sounding). "Biological" here is solely a dog-whistling cudgel against trans ppl

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Bondi: "The judge also would not refer to the defendant by his biological name -- referred to him by the pronouns."

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 4d

And you might then ask "What the fuck does biological name mean then?"

It means, quite literally, "As a fascist I consider my ability to say crazy-sounding shit without pushback a demonstration of my dominance over all out-groups, and it's my duty to demean and dehumanize trans people at all times"

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Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 4d

Since it's now news within our immediate circles, I can share: my partner got abruptly fired from his job (we had no idea it was coming; his boss chose to circumvent the normal steps you're supposed to go through to fire him while we were in Hawai‘i).

Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 8d

just kidding times two, my partner and I got blindsided by some pretty bad news the day I posted this, I'll be fully back in office and online here on Monday.

if, in the meantime, you feel like supporting me by reading Keeping Time or joining my Patreon/SubStar, that would be a welcome reprieve.

Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 11d

just kidding, I'm still pretty under the weather, so I'm extending my out-of-office until Friday!

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC (Friday only!) @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 4d

Kody is one of the best people in comics. Full stop.

You won't find anyone kinder, friendly or more supportive of the comics making community. He's been one of my most reliable friends in comics for years and someone who well and truly deserves all the support in the world. Lend a hand.

Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 4d

So just once again reiterating, if you wanna be a patron of my art, every dollar of your support goes really, REALLY far in making a tangible difference in my life.

patreon.com/kodyisover
subscribestar.adult/kodyisover
ko-fi.com/kodyisover

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 4d

“Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims.”

Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 4d

no words

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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