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Drex

@drexasaur.bsky.social

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FREE PALESTINE Politics, cats, Miscellaneous Nerdom. Appreciator of Herons and Crows. Supporter of the arts. Bigots not tolerated.

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Drex @drexasaur.bsky.social · Jun 5

Look, there are people who are capable of doing great work on social media when it comes to activism, but the vast majority of you posting and witnessing your way through the regime are failing your community. You will have an infinitely bigger impact volunteering and networking locally in real life

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6h

This is it. Very glad to see this full-throated welcome to queer people — and recognition of trans people’s history — from Zohran Mamdani in the closing month of his campaign and on National Coming Out Day.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 6h

Link's perma ban is wrong and should be reversed.

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Drex @drexasaur.bsky.social · 6h

Honestly knowing something is not nearly as important as having the tools to acquire the knowledge reasonably quickly but yeah shits going to get really ugly very very soon

Drex @drexasaur.bsky.social · 6h

I can't believe the right wielded the term Social Justice Warrior as an insult and we all just let them like that isn't an actively aspirational thing to be.

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 6h

Resistance.

A shirtless young Palestinian man stands in defiance, holding a large Palestinian flag high above his head as black smoke fills the sky behind him. His face is tense with determination, his body covered in dust and sweat. One arm stretches upward, gripping the flagpole tightly, while the other pulls back a slingshot — symbolising both resistance and resilience. Around him, a few other people, some wearing press vests and helmets, move amid the chaos, partially obscured by the thick smoke. The Palestinian flag — red, green, white, and black — waves powerfully against the dark, smoky background, becoming a striking symbol of courage, struggle, and liberation in the face of overwhelming oppression.

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🕸️🕷️ 🥀 Nani🥀🕷️🕸️ @sinmachine.is.severed.fyi · 9h

Politicians are NOT coming to “save us.”

We are our liberators.

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Drex @drexasaur.bsky.social · 7h

I support Palestine and am ugly for other reasons, like the shape of my face and chronic resting bitch face.

Drex @drexasaur.bsky.social · 15h

They're literally only gendering her correctly so that the loser who reported her is straight

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

A man gets a blowjob from a trans woman and his friends make fun of him so he goes to the police to claim she lied about being a woman. She was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to nearly 2 years in prison because of a man's shame.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thornaby transgender woman jailed for deception sex assault

Ciara Watkin's victim says he would not have agreed to sex had he known she was biologically male.

www.bbc.com

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Drex @drexasaur.bsky.social · 15h

And even if the MC did look like the picture on the right the grievance would instead be DEI because the game acknowledged the existence of women.

Drex @drexasaur.bsky.social · 15h

I am now realizing what I thought was gunshots a bit ago was probably fireworks (and celebratory gunshots) which I hate on principle.

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 17h

Link

Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 20h

Link

Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 21h

Link.

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Drex @drexasaur.bsky.social · 17h

I've literally had nightmares about performing on stage with an instrument I don't know how to play to a massive audience.

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Monica Anne Heart @monicaanneheart.bsky.social · 19h

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Drex @drexasaur.bsky.social · 19h

You're in good company

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Manny Suazo @smokyburnout.bsky.social · 21h

topical

a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

ALT: a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

media.tenor.com

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Daniel Harper @danielharper.bsky.social · 20h

The left has stolen the frog meme. This is pretty great.

Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 1d

Now with #AltText

A black background has white text at the top that says “amphifa.” Two flags over each other, common antifa flags, have a black flag and a green one. An image of a green frog facing left with a blue ascot sits on the black flag. Circling the flags is the text, “amphibians against fascism.”

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 20h

The reclaiming/reframing of frogs as Antifascist after enduring years of the execrable Pepe is glorious and I am here for every scrap of new heroic frog art