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Gin Valentine @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social · 1h

Get me her surgeon's contact info

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Gin Valentine @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social · 4h

I'm a Lucy, personally

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 8h

‘Kill James Bond’ took to the red carpet last night at the ITV bCreator Awards, repped by me and my cohost Devon. The podcast we do with November Kelly has 8.5 million downloads and still going strong babyyy

Trans rights, free Palestine, and as always, Kill James Bond! 🔫✊

Devon and Abi on the red carpet serving Bond villain realness

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Gin Valentine @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social · 4h

A legitimate green screen nightmare scenario

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 12h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7h

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Gin Valentine @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social · 14h

You can also reliably disprove any causal link between vaccines and autism by comparing different countries' national vaccine requirements and autism rates (with vaccine schedules varying widely but autism rates remaining relatively consistent), but that hasn't gotten through to them either

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 18h

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

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Gin Valentine @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social · 14h

I love these photos, because it feels EXTREMELY plausible that you just walked into the kiln room to find them like this, having skittered and scattered themselves to freedom until you walked in and busted them mid-escape

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RaggaMog (Morri-Arty) @raggamog.bsky.social · 17h

October folklore includes traditions surrounding the thinning of the veil between the worlds during Halloween and the Celtic festival of Samhain, the importance of the Hunter's Moon, and the symbolism of harvest. Hares are associated with the moon and liminality.
Art my own.
#FolkyFriday #Folkore

An original mixed media artwork of a hare and full moon. Created using acrylic paints on mulberry paper with copper leaf.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 16h

Breaking news: María Corina Machado has been awarded the prize for ‘keeping the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness’ . The win dashes the hopes of US President Donald Trump. on.ft.com/4ocHAKY

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 21h

Portland, as always, rocks.

FROGS TOGETHER STRONG

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 22h

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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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 1d

What’s It Gonna Take To Get You In This Woman?

You mull it over, eyeing my soft and shiny skin.
"I do like the finish...
She still runs well?"
He gestures to my exposed thighs,
Inviting a test drive.
At the touch of your long fingers
I let out a gay little moan.
"See?
Purrs like a kitten."

You're coming around.
You could use a tall blonde around for a little while.
Who couldn't?
"What kind of maintenance will she need?"
"A text once or twice a month...
It's not like you'll need to show her off Or tell your friends about her.
You're looking at bare minimum.
She's basically a houseplant."

"And when I'm done with her?"
The dealer looks apologetic.
"We don't do returns.
But resale should be no problem.
That's the great thing about used girls.
There's always someone else
Who wants to use them."

"I'll take her," you say,
Not bothering to take my hand
As I step off the platform.
I could hear it all, of course.
But I smile anyway.
I'm the prettiest girl at the used girl lot
And I got picked again.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1d

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

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AnnaMolly will typo @anna-molly.bsky.social · 22h

When they leave for mastodon, we get to split their dopamine

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Gin Valentine @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social · 22h

I think I had been scrabbling for something beyond "maybe I'm gay??" for a long time, but didn't have the vocabulary or knowledge to look any further (also the answer was 'yes you are' but not in the way I could conceive of back then 😉)

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Gin Valentine @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social · 22h

I don't know how it felt for you, but I think there's something generational here – I didn't even have a full conception of trans as a thing until probably my late 20s at best. It was a punchline, a slur, and not much else to me until Laura Jane Grace came out and I went OH SHIT.

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Gin Valentine @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social · 23h

The compassionate angle I try to take on myself is that I wasn't ready when my egg started cracking; 2013 Me was rocked by Laura Jane Grace in the best way, but I couldn't really get free then, no matter how big of a sledgehammer that Against Me! album was to my notion of cis-ness

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Gin Valentine @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social · 23h

(also I cannot deny that there's a connection between finally getting on the right mix of meds, because the whole scales-falling-from-my-eyes moment happened almost exactly 6 months from adding a T-blocker to my mix)

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Gin Valentine @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social · 23h

I think the wish for greater clarity, and earlier, is a staple of transness (or at least, it's a feeling I know very well). For me, at least, I think I needed the relatively small move from Hated Thing to Meh Fine Thing so I could get the perspective I needed to *actually* embrace what I wanted

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 1d

How very Pocockian. The only parliamentarian to have captained an elite national sports team got expelled from the parliamentary sports club for expressing principles about the sinister cavortings of the gambling industry.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby Independent ACT senator David Pocock – a former Wallabies captain – been banned from attending parliament house’s social sports club after raising concern about its sponsorship by the gambling industry. The former rugby star was on Thursday night told he was no longer welcome at Australian Parliament Sports Club events, and accused of politicising the organisation. He has been removed from group chats discussing its events. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Gin Valentine @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting! My path wasn't wildly dissimilar, coming out as non-binary first for a few years and hating that *less* but still not feeling it. Would've been a bit over three years now where I went through a hormonal storm and came out knowing with certainty that I was a woman

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Gin Valentine @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats! I'm impressed that you can narrow it down so much – my egg cracked over such a long period that I'd struggle to claim a *year* 😂

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Gin Valentine @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social · 1d

(I was rewatching that bit because it's the context for today's coffee mug, and I'm never not here for making myself cry at the idea of receiving such generous love)

A grey coffee mug with "you're easy to love" written in the side. The typeface is kinda shaggy and the O in love has a wolf paw print in it because the character who said this line is a werewolf

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Gin Valentine @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I'm the kind of hormonal where I just start weeping when Jawbone offers to adopt Adaine 😭😭😭

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