OldBae
dorianbae.bsky.social
OldBae
@dorianbae.bsky.social
Trans man. Left to my own devices I'd be making mead and playing with my friends and chosen family in the woods. Choosing kindness as my strength. Pet cats, lift heavy, laugh in the teeth of despair.
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Red Knight 🌾🍂🌺
January 4, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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What’s going on in Venezuela is terrible and important. But don’t lose sight of this bombshell. Or the Epstein files.
Jack Smith:
“Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn
the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR-b... (8:58)
Jack Smith Deposition
YouTube video by House Judiciary GOP
www.youtube.com
January 4, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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oh boy it's my birthday!
December 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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you simply do not have to preface your statements about this with “but Maduro sucks”

whether or not Maduro sucks is entirely beside the point - we invaded another country and grabbed their leader with no justification other than “we wanted to”

don’t give them cover on it
January 3, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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In the wake of all the news coming out of the US and the amount of shouting at the TV I've done, I thought everyone else might benefit from one of my favourite photos from 2017 to break up the doom scrolling.

I cannot fix the big things, so here's a small thing.
January 3, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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It’s hard to believe a president would time an illegal military attack to distract the public’s attention, but today is the statutory deadline for DOJ to release its report on the Epstein file production. Maybe it is just a coincidence.
January 3, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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Remember when tech companies vowed to do more to stop the flow of disinformation on their platforms?

Instead, courtesy of genAI and lax moderation, it's never been harder to discern what's real from what isn't -- especially during breaking news events like today. From @davidgilbert.bsky.social
Disinformation Floods Social Media After Nicolás Maduro's Capture
From seemingly AI-generated videos to the recirculation of old footage, TikTok, Instagram, and X did little to stop the onslaught of misleading posts in the wake of the US invasion of Venezuela.
www.wired.com
January 3, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

"But what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?"
Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters
January 3, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison
January 3, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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Calling is better if you can swing it, but if you're phone shy here's a slightly augmented script I made for faxing/emailing/etc (feel free to steal in alt text).

Find Your Senators: www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

Find Your Representatives: www.house.gov/representati...
January 3, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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They really bombed Venezuela before releasing the Epstein files.
January 3, 2026 at 8:11 AM
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you don't need to add caveats agreeing that the head of state abducted is a bad guy before opposing abduction of a head of state by military force. If the rule was any head of government is fair game then the entire world would be a series of decapitation strikes and show trials in foreign courts.
January 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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The swiftness with which Trump dismantled decades of meager, hard-fought protections exposed the limits of legal work.
twp.ai/4itNhb
In the Face of Anti-Trans Escalation, We Need More Than Legal Strategies
The swiftness with which Trump dismantled decades of meager, hard-fought protections exposed the limits of legal work.
truthout.org
December 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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it’s stupid to not use ai just because it can induce psychosis and generate child porn. it’s like saying you’re hungry when there’s a hot dog on the ground outside that induces psychosis and generates child porn
January 2, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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Public librarians deserve higher pay. I love public libraries.
January 2, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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Serious thing for folks to consider is, particularly for marginalized people, Grudges Are Self-Defense. What you may be interpreting as pettiness is probably closer aligned to "You have demonstrated you're not to be trusted." And knowing who REALLY has your back is more important that ever.
I feel in my bones that the wave has started to crash back in and Certain People/Companies who thought they were safe to abandon everyone they’d been pretending to care about will suddenly realize that those people have money/power and I, for one, will be holding a grudge until the end of time 💜
January 2, 2026 at 5:43 AM
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Tesla at the moment is a company without a customer base, and running on illusion and fumes.
As the link notes, I'm the world's biggest fan of the Tesla Takedown.

And I think it's more important than ever with Musk looking poised to be the GOP's biggest donor again in 2026.
December 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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I feel in my bones that the wave has started to crash back in and Certain People/Companies who thought they were safe to abandon everyone they’d been pretending to care about will suddenly realize that those people have money/power and I, for one, will be holding a grudge until the end of time 💜
January 2, 2026 at 5:20 AM
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In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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Before I depart, I bestow upon you the wisdom that remains.
January 1, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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while my mom was pregnant with me, she was delivering chinese food on bike in new orleans. i like to think that the music she heard in the streets made me the way i am now.

happy new year everyone!
January 2, 2026 at 4:23 AM
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This is just such a damned disgrace. A crime against knowledge and humanity itself.
January 1, 2026 at 5:38 AM
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“pivot to video”

no thanks I’m gonna pivot to the woods
January 1, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Finally finished my lemon pig. Prototyping/proper patterning that I should have done felt like cheating, so I just went for it, we're going with "goofiness is intentional." Their name is Clover
January 2, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.

consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
January 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM