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Celestia @junipermoonlight.bsky.social · 1d

The demo of our game DESTINY SPIRE is included as part of the ongoing #SteamNextFest happening right now!

If you enjoy retro JRPGS and are interested in a modern take on the genre, give our game a try:)

store.steampowered.com/app/3369150/...

Wishlists also help boost the game's Steam visibility!

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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 1d

This will kill trans women.

Anti-trans biases & structural racism is rife against Aboriginal Trans People in the NT; they fare worse on measures of poverty, homelessness, & overrepresentation in the justice system, & abuse/harassment both in & outside of the justice system!!

Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 1d

NT bans trans women in womens prisons www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...

www.theaustralian.com.au

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Éliette @elipriaulx.bsky.social · 1d

I like how your plectrum matches the inlays. 👀

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 1d

Which shows the NHS clinics are deliberately held back.

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 2d

The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳

It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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Éliette @elipriaulx.bsky.social · 1d

"Even Windows-only apps deserve better than Electron" 🔥

Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · 1d

Plot twist: That slick Windows 11 app with Mica effects? It's built with Avalonia!

Fluent Search looks so native that users think it's UWP.

Nope - just Avalonia delivering native Windows performance.

Even Windows-only apps deserve better than Electron.

fluentsearch.net

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Éliette @elipriaulx.bsky.social · 1d

Not yet. Just mildly congested, headachy, constantly thirsty, and nauseous.

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Éliette @elipriaulx.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations on being cancer-free. ❤️😍

Éliette @elipriaulx.bsky.social · 1d

You too 🥺❤️

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Éliette @elipriaulx.bsky.social · 2d

I'm feeling sick today for the first time in years. I almost miss the comradery and community while collectively shoving sticks up our noses. 🦠

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Éliette @elipriaulx.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! It's changed a lot over the past (almost) 10 months. I'm not sure if it will continue to do so much from here - I probably need to get fitter again and lose weight. :3

I hope your procedure went well and that recovery hasn't been arduous. ❤️

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Éliette @elipriaulx.bsky.social · 2d

Post-surgery healing; I hadn't really been *looking* at it for months now, but I took some photos last week for my alt because people there kept asking me how its healing. 🙂

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Lumi @dogfrot.bsky.social · 21d

Can't tell you how bizarre it is to read an article about the person you wake up next to every morning.
Please keep spreading the story of what happened so that people can maybe start to understand how bad things truly are for us.

Vivian McCall @vivmccall.bsky.social · 21d

Earlier this month, three trans women were beaten by a group of young men in Seattle's gay neighborhood.

According to the county prosecutor's office, there's been at least four more group beatings since June 2024. In one case, strangers joined in. The kicker?

www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

Seattle Area Trans Women Are Being Attacked by Groups of Men

Warning: This story contains descriptions of violence. “Go to Pony, go to Pony, go to Pony—there’s more people there,” said a frantic woman as she approached Madison Carstens and her friends next to t...

www.thestranger.com

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 3d

‘Section 28 2.0’: New “transphobic” curriculum restricts teachers from encouraging Trans+ pupils to understand their identity 👇

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/section-28-2-0-new-transphobic-curriculum-restricts-teachers-from-encouraging-trans-pupils-to-understand-their-identity/

RSE guidance is “patently and cruelly transphobic” - community responds to ‘Section 28 2.0’ curriculum

It has taken a "trans exclusionary" approach and received widespread condemnation from the LGBTQIA+ community

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Éliette @elipriaulx.bsky.social · 2d

It's definitely something...

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 2d

graham linehan’s latest escalation is hiring ppl to dox and harass trans women. 🤷‍♀️

jus imagine for a second that a cis man was doing this to cis women.

society says not only is it okay to do it to trans women but it’s fine to publicly crowdfund to pay for it. 😕

Let's hire a private detective!
Here's where we are: for wears, Ive been reporting a group of men to the police. They ve harassed dozens of people.
the harassment and death threats they send my way, nothing happens. When others report them, nothing happens.
But here's what does happen: the police investigate us for talking about them.
Ine grotesque nature or this colacerason would be laservano trom a oritance. Unortunatty, fi not as a ostance, and it's been going on for years.
So I've decided to do something that feets wonderfully ridiculous and also completely necessary, hire a proper private detective. Someone who actually investigates things. Novel concept, I know.
I'm deughted to say that our prece on Melody Uawion has resuited in members of his tamity ottung m touch. And that s what we can do without a private detective. Think what will happen if we get professionals on the case.
Picture it: a licensed imestigater with a proper case file, following leads from Sussex to Capetown, gathering evidence the authorities keco oretendina doesn't exist. Well comale everything, oresent & to indroundent abservers and every maic)
outlet we can find.
What Your Money Gets
• A licensed investigator who actually does the job
• Document searches, survellance, evidence gathering
• Property documented findings that can be used legally or journalistically
Iknow vou're sick of the Cancel Tax. I'm sick ct it too. But ths onels dicent. This one micht oroduce results that and
decoly satistving no matter where you are in the foht. The l& detective work. And when tis done, we'll have something
Why It Costs What It Costs
The goal looks high because this isn't some bloke following someone to Tesco. This is a proper irvestigation spanning multiple juriscictions. Were not just atter a few bad actors. We want to out all of them.
Every donation puts us closer to exposing something the authorities have worked very

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Éliette @elipriaulx.bsky.social · 2d

The face of someone who just realised that the big ugly scar on her vagina kind of looks like a butterfly. 🦋

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 3d

apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience

plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic

juliaserano.medium.com

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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 4d

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable, coroner rules https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/09/nhs-wait-times-trans-girl-suicide/?utm_content=1760127601&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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Éliette @elipriaulx.bsky.social · 3d

I've also been using Bazzite for a few months now and it has been excellent - I'm converting the lounge room game box from my mum's to Bazzite tonight. Everyone is being converted. 🙂

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Éliette @elipriaulx.bsky.social · 3d

I'm well past that threshold I think. We are cooking. 😅

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Éliette @elipriaulx.bsky.social · 3d

I use Ws2025 on my desktop to avoid it, but I'm dreading recall and whatever shit show will come in w12. I've tried ~8 distributions now, and have been using fedora more or less full time for the past 2 months. I'll convert my work PC too when 43 is released in November. :3

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Éliette @elipriaulx.bsky.social · 3d

I've reluctantly converted. The nags after updates every few weeks are making me irate.

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Éliette @elipriaulx.bsky.social · 3d

KDE is unusably ugly. Sorry. 🤷🏻

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trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 3d

so yeah. if you needed an even starker example of how "sex by deception" exists almost exclusively to punish transgender people for being violently oppressed in our country there you go;

The only convictions for sex by deception that stick stick because the defendant is transgender. Nothing else.

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 5d

Trans people must not be left behind: TGEU highlights critical gaps in the new EU LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy 2026-30

"The Strategy inadequately addresses the scapegoating of trans people, misses the opportunity to ensure the full protection of the rights of trans people under EU law,"

Trans people must not be left behind: TGEU highlights critical gaps in the new EU LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy 2026-30 - TGEU - Trans Europe and Central Asia

TGEU welcomes the publication of the LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy 2026–2030 and the European Commission’s renewed pledge to advance the rights of all LGBTIQ+ people while embedding an intersectional pers...

tgeu.org

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