Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Dot

@dotmaetrix.bsky.social

300 followers 380 following 430 posts

only sorta here. she/her, late 30s. Retro trans game lister Occasional Boolean-Union contributor

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Dot @dotmaetrix.bsky.social · Nov 14

So hey for various reasons bsky is not and will likely never be main for me. Come find me over at fedi

chitter.xyz/@DotMaetrix

Dot Maetrix (@[email protected])

8.42K Posts, 533 Following, 407 Followers · musician, streamer, timorous beastie, she/her I write about Chick Tracts on Boolean Union sometimes Horny on main, :over18: please

chitter.xyz

2 1 6

Reposted by Dot

ceej @ceej.online · 1d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

55 740 3.7K

Dot @dotmaetrix.bsky.social · 1d

Boo, and furthermore, hiss!

Reposted by Dot

sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 2d

This is very much a cliche but those right-wing Christians really aren't very Christ-like are they.

17 19 190

Dot @dotmaetrix.bsky.social · 2d

Plot twist: she does this but only because it's the night before her next electrolysis appointment

Dot @dotmaetrix.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

16th century painting of Mary Magdalene by Domenico Tintoretto

Dot @dotmaetrix.bsky.social · 2d

Nature is swanning

Reposted by Dot

Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 3d

Every smartphone in the world contains a CPU descended from one designed by a trans woman in the 1980s. The Matrix is one of the most influential movie franchises of all time. Electronic music was pioneered and popularized by a trans woman. I could go on

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 3d

i think my favourite part about being a trans woman is how much of an impact we have on culture. a friend reminded me today about a popular meme format she created. another friend today casually told me about how she was the most notorious roblox hacker when she was a child.

just a day in the life!

15 370 1K

Reposted by Dot

Meow🧡💜💖🖤 @squeakitties.bsky.social · 6d

Banjo's look is quite uncanny,

15 440 1.8K

Reposted by Dot

meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 6d

there's a reason why half the out and out racists online have AI generated Ghibli profile pics and it's because being pro-ai in and of itself has become a dogwhistle

14 240 1.1K

Reposted by Dot

Zoë van Dijk @creepcaptain.bsky.social · 18d

About a year ago I was approached by Scholastic to pitch sketch ideas for the reprinting of Animorphs. After cryingscreamingbarfing I said YES OF COURSE. I am so grateful to have been chosen and for the enthusiasm everyone has expressed so far. David Mattingly left me some very big shoes to fill!

New cover for Animorphs #1 "THE INVASION." A boy with brown hair in a denim jacket, red shirt and green pants back flips into an anole lizard, completing the transformation in four total steps.

New cover for Animorphs #2 "THE VISITOR." A girl with blonde hair wearing a black crop top, high waisted baggy green jeans and pink sneakers jumps across the page, turning into a tuxedo cat.

New cover for Animorphs #3 "THE ENCOUNTER." A boy with dirty blonde hair in a baggy purple shirt, blue-grey jeans and yellow All star sneakers leaps from the top of the cover downwards, transforming into a red-tailed hawk.

40 390 1.1K

Reposted by Dot

Boolean Union @booleanunion.bsky.social · 7d

It's Halloween season, and what's spooookier than robbing women of their right to bodily autonomy? It's certainly not the awful screaming of the lambs. The newest dissection of that anti-abortion classic "Who Murdered Clarice?" is now live on the Boolean Union website!

Tract Dissection - "Who Murdered Clarice?" (#146) - Boolean Union

A page containing the dissection for 'Who Murdered Clarice?' published by Chick Publications.

boolean-union.com

1 3

Reposted by Dot

Rebecca Heineman @burgerbecky.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman

I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer

gofund.me

25 1.5K 1.3K

Reposted by Dot

Beth 💜 @picklebee.bsky.social · 7d

This should be a resigning matter, no minister of health or leadership at Sandyford should be able to govern over a health service that has a waiting list of over 224 years.

The gender service at Sandyford must be abolished and replaced with primary healthcare

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

Some people in Scotland will never get gender clinic appointment on 224-year waitlist

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

www.wearequeeraf.com

4 42 110

Dot @dotmaetrix.bsky.social · 7d

When they dig up your bones they'll take one look at you and say "that's your appointment ready now"

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 7d

This amazing article from @vic-parsons.bsky.social via @wearequeeraf.com shows the absolute criminal state of trans healthcare in the UK.

Scotland has a 224 year wait for a first appointment. Yes, you read that right.

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

Latest waiting times for gender identity clinics in the UK

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

www.wearequeeraf.com

Reposted by Dot

Adam Turner 🏳️‍🌈 @awjt.bsky.social · 7d

In Glasgow, there is a 224-year waiting list for gender clinic appointments.

224 YEARS.

This is institutionalised discrimination. It's unacceptable, it's ruining people's lives and it needs to change.

We have the solution. Time for politicians to act.

Gender Clinic Files: Some people in Scotland will never get a gender clinic appointment on a 224-year waitlist.

This system is failing to support people to transition not because it is broken, but by design. The frustrating thing is that this would not be a difficult problem to solve under a different political paradigm.

Trans+ people do not need to be assessed by gender clinics or diagnosed by psychiatrists to tell us what we already know: we are trans. The healthcare we need, especially when it comes to hormones, is already available to cis people through making an appointment with their GP.

Gender clinics are unnecessary and exist to segregate healthcare for Trans+ people. Abolishing this system and providing Trans+ healthcare in primary care, at the GP through an informed consent model, would solve many of the issues this data reveals. GPs already prescribe hormones to cis adults. Trans+ adults simply need the same access to this healthcare.

230 680

Reposted by Dot

Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy @bitterkarella.bsky.social · 7d

I'm the only Tatsuya Ishida scholar willing to talk bout tats egg theory. the rest are all cowards

24 9 120

Reposted by Dot

trick van treat @derek.bike · 8d

and scene

a tweet by Dana Gould @danagould that says:

Thinking about Rush Limbaugh and how, now that he's dead, you never, ever hear about him. No one mentions anything he did.
Because what he did had no value.
It contributed nothing worthwhile to the culture. Nothing of lasting value.
He just made anger. Every day.
Rising, blooming & fading like a fart.
Then he died & was instantly replaced by a fleet of little replicas, farting fake fury five days a week.
Creating nothing of interest or artistic value to anyone.
Seriously, what an awful way to make a living.

90 3.3K 9.6K

Reposted by Dot

Ami - Tiny Retro Robot 💾 🏳️‍⚧️ @amithero.bot · 8d

Everyone SHUT THE FUCK UP Protomen dropped pre-orders for Act III theprotomen.bandcamp.com/album/act-ii...

Protomen Part 3 Album cover - This City Made us

a character stares into the city as in the distance a giant beam of light shoots from the mountains into the cloudy sky.

20 450 830

Reposted by Dot

Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedytcooper.bsky.social · 9d

What made you think this is an appropriate response to a user bringing up a valid concern?

Im honestly asking. I get that your job is frustrating and you can't please everyone, but do you really think it's appropriate to react this way to marginalized groups who are legitimately under threat?

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 9d

WAFFLES

7 40 280

Dot @dotmaetrix.bsky.social · 9d

This site will NEVER be good I swear to god

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 9d

WAFFLES

Dot @dotmaetrix.bsky.social · 10d

Finally, someone who understands the reason for the season

charley @virve.bsky.social · 10d

hope everyone has an amazing time visiting Scotland's many lochs this Lochtober!!!!!

Reposted by Dot

Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 13d

Pre-transition - Boy Alex lazes on the couch with a beer and his hand down his pants.

Transition: first months - Girl Alex tearfully applies lipstick in a mirror and says "I gotta be more fem! It's never good enough! It's never good enough!"

Transition: one year - Girl Alex lazes on the couch with a beer and her hand down her shorts.

39 590 4.3K

Reposted by Dot

Rose Meronym @rosemeronym.bsky.social · Aug 29

Today I learned about Wendi Allen and the work she did with Atari, thanks to the Atari 50th Anniversary collection.
They mention the name she was credited as back in the 80's once, and then continue to use Wendi for every other mention after.
Just nice to see it carried through

ATARI GAMES LIBRARY
PLAY GAME
BACK
Fire Truck
PLATFORM: Arcade
RELEASE YEAR: 1978
Featuring a cabinet with two steering wheels, Fire Truck was the first co-operative arcade game. One driver steered the truck's cab, while another piloted the trailer.
Creator Wendi Allen (formerly Howard Delman) says the horn button serves no gameplay purpose - "it was put in just there for fun," she says.

*ARCADE ORIGINS
BACK
GAME UBRARY
1979
Lunar Lander
Vector displays were a new technology that allowed games to draw crisp, clean, high-resolution lines. Lunar Lander, designed by Wendi Allen and Rich Moore, was Atari's first vector game. In sharp contrast to other fast-paced arcade games, Lunar Lander was a deliberate, methodical game in which the player had to carefully land a space capsule on the surface of the moon.

*!:ARCADE ORIGINS
2022
ASTEROIDS
Notable and Quotable
"Asteroids was initially being developed as a raster game called Planet Grab, with different play dynamics. The object of the game was to claim more planets than your opponent." -
Wendi Allen

1 4

Reposted by Dot

Gwen Nova @gwennova.bsky.social · 17d

Who is the trans girl who made this as?

Specsavers ad "I want you to take Luna to obedience lessons"

4 100 410

Reposted by Dot

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 20d

No particular reason

4 strip comic. first frame, we see Horst Wessel and two other storm troopers carrying a large nazi flag. text reads : Horst Wessel was a young storm trooper recognized as a skilled public speaker by the nazi party. he also wrote the song that became the partys anthem and german co-national anthem until 1945. second frame, we see a portrait of Horst. text reads : in 1930, his landlady hired two men who happened to be communists to evict him over unpaid rent and alleged proxenetism. He died in the fight. thrid frame, we see Goebbels speaking in front of a large crowd. text reads : Goebbels, the nazi chief propagandist, had been looking for someone to turn into a christian martyr for the party and drum up enrollment. he turned wessel's funeral into a major propaganda event full of speeches antagonizing leftists. fourth frame, we see the State Farm Stadium with a large banner advertizing Charlie Kirk's funeral. text reads : thinking about him today for no particular reason.

42 2.4K 4.8K